ErwinWendy.nl » Astro http://blog.erwinwendy.nl Yet another weblog Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:11:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Weer eens een ander perspectief op een lancering http://blog.erwinwendy.nl/2009/03/18/weer-eens-een-ander-perspectief-op-een-lancering/ http://blog.erwinwendy.nl/2009/03/18/weer-eens-een-ander-perspectief-op-een-lancering/#comments Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:30:32 +0000 Erwin http://blog.erwinwendy.nl/?p=442
 
Leuk om te zien dat het op het beneden op de grond al donker was en hoger in de atmosfeer nog niet.
]]> http://blog.erwinwendy.nl/2009/03/18/weer-eens-een-ander-perspectief-op-een-lancering/feed/ 0 Space station ISS and STS-119, 2 hours before docking http://blog.erwinwendy.nl/2009/03/17/space-station-iss-and-sts-119-2-hours-before-docking/ http://blog.erwinwendy.nl/2009/03/17/space-station-iss-and-sts-119-2-hours-before-docking/#comments Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:38:26 +0000 Erwin http://blog.erwinwendy.nl/?p=425 It has been a while since I saw two space craft flying this close together (last time was I think a Sojuz making a rendezvous with Mir back in the late 80s).

Tonight space shuttle Discovery (mission STS-119) will dock with the International Space Station at 22:13 CET. Below you can see a picture I took 30 minutes ago (20:11 CET) from my backyard. The trail from both space craft (and one air plane) is visible.

ISS and the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-119)

Here a 100% crop, the yellow arrow points to ISS, the white one to Discovery. The separation between the to space craft was about 11 kilometres.  

 

Since it's always hard to aim your camera for these events, I didn't catch the whole trial. Though this way it's still visible how close they where flying together.

Picture data: Canon EOS 20D, EFS10-22@10mm, F4.5, exposure time 93", ISO 200, whitebalanche is a bit funky

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