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corpusse
03-10-2011, 11:41 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE-TiA6lVD4

These are still frames made into an animation. I captured discovery with an imaging source camera shot at 60 frames per second at 1/1250 shutter speed (It's super bright)

Since this is hand tracked and moving super fast it's not showing it's actual flight path but still kinda neat. Each frame is 1/60th of a second in real time. Shot from over 200 miles away traveling at over 17 000 mph.

I used a celestron 8" scope manually tracked discovery and shot with an imaging source dmk 21 monochrome camera.


https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_OxZoGqFQrPI/TXWMsM4M2SI/AAAAAAAAIV8/onhIxyzmwm0/s800/STS133_discovery.jpg

Delphinus
03-10-2011, 12:20 PM
NEAT!!

rstar
03-10-2011, 03:52 PM
What an amazing thing to be able to witness! The final decent of shuttle going into retirnment!!

corpusse
03-10-2011, 05:17 PM
These were taken Monday about 12 hours after discovery undocked from the ISS. The space station was about 5-10 seconds behind in it's orbit.