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Topic: Photo of the week 455 (July 13, 2013)
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heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 07-13-2013 02:32 AM
   
 NASA photographer Sandra Joseph aims her remote camera tracker on Atlantis as it lifts off from KSC's Launch Pad 39A at the beginning of the final Space Shuttle mission, STS-135, on July 8, 2011. |
Max Q
Member Posts: 399
From: Whyalla South Australia
Registered: Mar 2007
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posted 07-13-2013 04:27 AM
I have a friend whom I have lost contact with who did this in the 50's at Woomera. She was not that old at the time in her teens she tells story's of herself and the rest of the "wunderkinder" as what they called so im lead to believe, in what was an amazing part of her life. |
Philip
Member Posts: 5952
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 07-13-2013 04:34 AM
Any details on the telescope? Looks like a SCT Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope. |
garymilgrom
Member Posts: 1966
From: Atlanta, GA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 07-13-2013 10:47 AM
I bet its hard following the bright target against that bright cloud cover at such high magnification. |
mach3valkyrie
Member Posts: 719
From: Albany, Oregon
Registered: Jul 2006
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posted 07-13-2013 01:36 PM
It would be great having that job, especially during the 1960's. |
dabolton
Member Posts: 419
From: Seneca, IL, US
Registered: Jan 2009
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posted 07-16-2013 12:59 PM
Would be a sweaty sweltering job in central Florida though. |
Cozmosis22
Member Posts: 968
From: Texas * Earth
Registered: Apr 2011
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posted 07-24-2013 11:15 PM
quote:
Originally posted by garymilgrom:
I bet it's hard following the bright target against that bright cloud cover at such high magnification.
With that setup she is likely tracking the launch with some high-powered binocs not looking through the extreme telescopic lens off to the side. That trailer appears to be some 3 to 4 miles from the pad, probably a bit north of the VAB? |
Philip
Member Posts: 5952
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 07-25-2013 09:16 AM
No problem if they're using a filter.  |
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