moon, jupiter and venus and ISS

Taking advantage of the moon, jupiter, venus show. The ISS came through at the right time for a nice picture taken from London. 30s exposure ISO 200 on Canon 500d with 10-22mm wide angle

This picture was featured in spaceweather.com on Feb 25 2012

ISS and Space shuttle Discovery

I was looking forward to the last flight of space shuttle Discovery and was hoping to catch it. I discovered that it would pass over London about 20 min before docking with the ISS, so the chances of having both in the field of view of my telescope were good. At 18:36GMT, the tandem rose over London as the cloud cover started to thin out. It was looking like a single brightening star. But through the finder of my scope I could distinguish 2 dots. Frantically taking as many pictures as my camera could, I was manually tracking the tandem, hoping that a few shots would be good enough. Well it was!!! scope: 130mm/720mm newton, 20mm eyepiece, canon EOS 550D, 1/250s at 1600 ISO

The picture was features twice in spaceweather.com (here and here) on Feb 27, 2011

ISS in transit... animated

I've recently spent a bit of time playing with the images of the march transit to build an animated gif of the sequence.
The result isn't too bad as it shows the ISS turning slowly as it passes overhead.




Quelques nuits plus tard, j'en ai profite pour faire une photo de l'amas globulaire M13, aussi connu sous le nom d'amas d'Hecrule (de la constellation du meme nom)...

ISS in transit

The ISS is in transit, visible many times a night those days. I managed to get a quick shot with my telescope... you can see the solar panels and main modules. Though this is far from what others have managed to obtain. This movie is simply amazing