STS-134 (Endeavour) chasing the ISS!

StephenM (Stephen) · #1 18-05-2011, 08:01 PM

Hi all,

I've always wanted to see a double pass of the shuttle and space station together, and I had to wait until the penultimate shuttle flight to see it - but it was worth the wait! An absolutely spectacular sight at about 6:13pm today, as the two spacecraft flew over separated by less than one degree. And the clouds only cleared about 5 minutes before they passed!

I was also lucky enough to have set up the camera on the tripod, and took 3x10 second exposures which I've stacked using Startrails. I hope you like the result! I'm fairly stoked to have finally captured it

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Cheers,
Stephen

Octane (Humayun) · #2 18-05-2011, 08:39 PM

Super.

H

StephenM (Stephen) · #3 18-05-2011, 08:53 PM

Thanks H.

Spaceweather says they docked at 6:14am EDT, so by my calculations the 3rd of my exposures was exactly 2 hrs prior to docking! I think I really was lucky to have captured this!

Cheers,
Stephen

DavidTrap (David) · #4 18-05-2011, 09:02 PM

Well done Stephen. I was disappointed as I drove home this evening looking at all that cloud to the north. Didn't even bother going outside...

DT

mithrandir (Andrew) · #5 18-05-2011, 09:16 PM

Excellent Stephen. I caught a glimpse of them just before they vanished into the earth's shadow.

Nico13 (Ken) · #6 18-05-2011, 09:18 PM

Great capture well done.

Ken

cookie8 (Vincent) · #7 18-05-2011, 11:51 PM

Superb capture. One to show to your grandkids.

StephenM (Stephen) · #8 19-05-2011, 06:03 AM

Thanks very much David, Andrew, Ken and Vincent!

I just noticed that this image made the front page of Spaceweather as well!

http://www.spaceweather.com/

Cheers,
Stephen

von Tom (Tom) · #9 19-05-2011, 06:50 AM

Well done Stephen!

Liz · #10 19-05-2011, 07:54 AM

Woohoo!! Congrats Stephen on Spaceweather front page, again

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A great capture.

adman (Adam) · #11 19-05-2011, 08:16 AM

that's a great picture. I had almost given up hope of those clouds clearing - so it was a very welcome sight. I was just walking out of work at the time, and caught most of the approach till when they faded out.

Adam

multiweb (Marc) · #12 19-05-2011, 09:27 AM

Good stuff!

StephenM (Stephen) · #13 19-05-2011, 11:58 AM

Thanks very much Tom, Liz, Adam and Marc!

Cheers,
Stephen

hotspur (Chris) · #14 22-05-2011, 10:07 AM

WOW!-the 'Top-Gun' of IIS does it again! well done!!!

StephenM (Stephen) · #15 22-05-2011, 07:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hotspur

WOW!-the 'Top-Gun' of IIS does it again! well done!!!

Thanks very much Chris! - but I think the "Top-Gun of IIS" tag is a bit of an exaggerration!!!

Cheers,
Stephen

Clayton · #16 22-05-2011, 11:33 PM

Well done Stephen, Looks like this is one shot I will never get.

Matt Wastell (Matt) · #17 23-05-2011, 04:46 PM

Pleased you got the shot!

StephenM (Stephen) · #18 26-05-2011, 09:48 AM

Thanks Rob and Matt! Yes Rob, it was a bit of a one-off opportunity so it was nice to capture it.

Cheers,
Stephen

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #19 26-05-2011, 09:58 AM

How cool is that! Well nabbed old boy.

StephenM (Stephen) · #20 26-05-2011, 11:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jjjnettie

How cool is that! Well nabbed old boy.

Thanks jjj. It looked very cool as they both sailed overhead together!

Cheers,
Stephen