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Old 16-07-2011, 04:19 AM
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I also stayed up late on July 10th to catch a glimpse of the ISS/Atlantis, but only just saw this thread.

I used NASA's Skywatch website to calculate the location and times of when they would be visible... except I had the red/yellow colours for visibility confused and pointed my camera in the wrong part of the sky

The photos didn't turn out particularly well (but it was an impressive sight in the sky):

* ISS trail starts just before the left edge of the photo (very faint - a bit higher than the power lines)

* Atlantis trail (left edge of frame) merged from four 10 second exposures

* Atlantis trail (horizontal line in centre of frame) as it traveled past Jupiter
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