Yesterday I was honoured to have been taken on an 8hr guided tour of Goddard Space Flight Center.
While I found all of the facilities I visited very very interesting, (I'll share photos from other sections at a later time ) the high light for me was when we entered the building that housed Hubble's Mission Control.
But my heart missed a beat when I found out that I was going to be allowed inside.
HST Flight Ops team member David Schiable fired up the computers and got them talking to the telescope.
We talked space, astronomy and astro imaging and when he learned I was into astro imaging his eyes lighted up and asked most politely for advice on wide field astro imaging. !!!!
The man is in charge of Hubble, and he's asking ME for advice!! LOLOL So surreal and ironic. And yes, I have witnesses to this, they were as gobsmacked as I was.
So we shared photos and I gave what advice I could on imaging and processing wide fields and star trails and what programs would be best to use (startrails.de) .
