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ISS & Spaceshuttle Endeavour Image 2008/11/29(UT)
Ralf Vandebergh
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ISS
Firstly,I thought it belongs to the big shade at the lower part of the radiators,when I watched
a youtube video taken from the shuttle,I realised that it must be within resolution of my imaging
I took the image during the Nov 29 pass,when the ISS appeared 2 minutes behind the shuttle and
I also took the shuttle image.
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STS-126 Spaceshuttle Endeavour Image
I normally always have bad luck with solo passes of a Space Shuttle and
this is probably caused by the fact that a shuttle is not long,only 2 days in
solo-flight before and after the docking with the ISS.This Saturday,there was
a great luck,the clouds broke just some minutes before passing.
Here is a look into the Payload Bay of the Endeavour on its way to home,were we see the
Multi Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM)called Leonardo,a temporary module to bring
equipment and supplies to the station.Location:the Netherlands and a pass of 84° elevation South.
10inch Newtonian/manually tracked)
The distance between the ISS and the shuttle was small enough to see both in the sky,
the shuttle in the East,the ISS in the West,a spectacular sight.Several minutes lager,
a new Progress could be seen too.This was moving much faster due to the still lower
orbit after launch.Images probaly later.
Hi all--after entire frame-selection and analysing,the best frame of this session
was picked out and provided the attached final image as the best of the series.
Best regards,
RAlf Vandebergh
Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 7:13 PM
Subject: 2008/11/29_Spaceshuttle Endeavour observation
subject:2008/11/29_STS-126_observations
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I normally always have bad luck with solo passes of a Space Shuttle and
this is probably caused by the fact that a shuttle is not long,only 2 days in
solo-flight before and after the docking with the ISS.This Saturday,there was
a great luck,the clouds broke just some minutes before passing.
Here is a look into the Payload Bay of the Endeavour on its way to home,were we see the
Multi Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM)called Leonardo,a temporary module to bring
equipment and supplies to the station.Location:the Netherlands and a pass of 84° elevation South.
10inch Newtonian/manually tracked)
The distance between the ISS and the shuttle was small enough to see both in the sky,
the shuttle in the East,the ISS in the West,a spectacular sight.Several minutes lager,
a new Progress could be seen too.This was moving much faster due to the still lower
orbit after launch.Images probaly later.
Firstly,I thought it belongs to the big shade at the lower part of the radiators,when I watched
a youtube video taken from the shuttle,I realised that it must be within resolution of my imaging
I took the image during the Nov 29 pass,when the ISS appeared 2 minutes behind the shuttle and
I also took the shuttle image.
This is still a result of my STS-126-imaging session on Nov 29 during a pass of
the shuttle with 84°elevation over the Netherlands.The shuttle undocked one
day earlier from the ISS and landed a day later at Edwards.One of the surprises
in the image is a possible resolving of wing-flaps see:
Hi all,--this is the last frames and processing of the selection
of analysed frames from the 2008/11/29 session at 16:25 UTC.
(imaging:10inch Newtonian/f/20 eff.manually tracked,
A high-altitude cloud layer was reducing transparancy to
magn. 1-2,but this was actually a good test for the setup.
Hi all--Here are some final processings of images I took end November of the
shuttle Endeavour,1 day after undocking from the ISS and one day before landing.
The NASA emblem at the innerside of the left wing may have just enough contrast
to show up possibly in the image as a dark area,as seen in the comparison on the
second image.This,I concluded after several weeks of careful frame-analysing.
The second image is in the right orientation.
(image obtained with a 10inch Newtonian f/4.8 and tracked by hand)
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