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Topic: New ISS photo from backyard
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tegwilym
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From: Renton, WA USA
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posted 10-14-2002 06:27 PM
   
Hi guys,
I thought you would like to see my latest attempt at photographing the ISS. I caught a great shot of it with my telescope last night as it passed over Seattle. Atlantis is clearly visible as well as the new S1 truss that was installed last week.
http://www.geocities.com/tegwilym2/astrophotos/spacecraft.html Tom
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rjurek349
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posted 10-14-2002 06:40 PM
Tom -- Excellent shots!! Thanks for sharing. It is so cool to see that image of the shuttle attached to the station.Rich |
Ben
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posted 10-14-2002 07:13 PM
Cool! is all I can say. |
tegwilym
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posted 10-14-2002 08:29 PM
There is one more pass tonight in about 2 hours that I'll try. I don't think I can possibly duplicate that last image!Tom |
tegwilym
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posted 10-15-2002 01:47 AM
I didn't think I could duplicate last night's images, but I lied. I did well again tonight!
 http://www.geocities.com/tegwilym2/astrophotos/spacecraft.html |
Rizz
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From: Upcountry, Maui, Hawaii
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 10-15-2002 02:03 AM
Thats EXTREMELY AWESOME Tom. |
Rodina
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posted 10-15-2002 02:53 AM
Frighteningly good, Tom. |
tegwilym
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posted 10-15-2002 01:28 PM
Seems that my web site has been kind of popular. Too many hits on it and it's shut down for now. It's a free site, so I get what I pay for I guess. I'll have to move those over to the server space that I'm paying for.Tom |
Jake
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From: Issaquah, WA U.S.A.
Registered: Jun 2002
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posted 10-15-2002 04:43 PM
WOW Tom!!!!!FANTASTIC images of the ISS.... reach out and touch it, really brings the fact that it is actually happening overhead into reality. (You do need to pay for a site however, my computer has been popping up security alerts and new windows like crazy!!) Jake :-) ------------------
Jake Schultz - curator,
Newport Way Air Museum (OK, it's just my home) |
Werb
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posted 10-15-2002 04:48 PM
Very nice Tom! Keep up the awesome work!Mike
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tegwilym
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posted 10-15-2002 05:25 PM
Yeah, the site was down for a while. I just checked it and it's back up with about 100 more hits on it than last night. I'm thinking I should move some of my sites over to my AT&T space. No ads, and I'm paying for that so it should take the load better. |
Ben
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From: Daytona Beach, FL
Registered: May 2000
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posted 10-16-2002 01:24 PM
Hey Tom, they made NASAs homepage! How cool is that, congrats!
www.nasa.gov -Ben |
tegwilym
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posted 10-16-2002 01:40 PM
I just saw that on the Nasa science page, but didn't notice it was on the MAIN Nasa page until you mentioned that!Do you think this would count as a resume for a job with them? I could start tomorrow! |
Wehaveliftoff
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posted 10-18-2002 10:15 AM
What a great job, makes it all worth getting up in the middle of the night, even around Halloween |
lunarrv15
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posted 10-18-2002 02:38 PM
great photos. now just have to tweek it alittle more for crisp view. |
tegwilym
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posted 10-18-2002 02:53 PM
Thanks!
That's actually about as sharp as they can get. I did a little unsharp-masking in photoshop to sharpen them a little more without overprocessing them. I just need a more stable atmosphere to get it sharper. I'll just have to keep trying and hopefully get a good stable night one of these days. |
tegwilym
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posted 10-22-2002 02:05 AM
spent some time fooling around with Photoshop and an animated .gif program tonight. I made some short videos of the ISS pass that I took last week. Take a peek at them here: http://www.geocities.com/tegwilym2/astrophotos/spacecraft.html
(Click the video links on the first two images).
Tom |
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posted 10-23-2002 07:45 PM
WOW! Thanks for sharing these awesome photos. I think I can see someone waving at me from the window ! Seriously these are great and again thank-you ! |
WAWalsh
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posted 10-24-2002 09:36 AM
Heck, I have been withholding comment, but pride is getting the better of me. As Tom was taking his pictures (perhaps), the crew of STS-112 was answering questions sent up to them while in orbit. My daughter's question, posed with a little help from dad, was one of the questions selected. NASA's site has both the transcribed response and the real audio recording of Dr. Magnus's and Dr. Seller's responses. |
Rodina
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posted 10-24-2002 11:27 AM
Tom -The film is bloody fantastic and I hate to make artistic comments, but do you suppose you could run a synchronized clip with the 3D graphic model you use on your stills? That would probably help follow what's there. |
tegwilym
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posted 10-24-2002 12:24 PM
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Originally posted by Rodina:
The film is bloody fantastic and I hate to make artistic comments, but do you suppose you could run a synchronized clip with the 3D graphic model you use on your stills? That would probably help follow what's there.
Actually, that is a very good idea! It would take a bit of work though since the videos are made up of 23 and 40 frames each. I would have to make each model, cut it out, rotate and resize it to match the image, and probably flip it too.
It would be a lot of work, but it would look realy cool.
I might have to play around with that. Tom |
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