ISS & Shuttle Tandem "Flyby"

[Rob Oplawar]

Right now the Space Shuttle is with the ISS, but not docked, it's in the same orbit but some miles away from the ISS, I think. Just a couple of minutes ago they passed directly over Denver, Colorado, US (which is roughly where I live).

In order to pick them up I had to set the exposure on my camera to 2.5 seconds.

http://www.spacebrick.net/pictures/blog_gallery/blur.jpg
The ISS and Shuttle come into view above my neighbor's house. My tripod twitched on this one.

http://www.spacebrick.net/pictures/blog_gallery/streak.jpg
They were movin pretty quick, but I had to keep the exposure long to pick them up, so they streaked. The bright streak is the ISS, the less bright streak is the Space Shuttle.



I just love watching satellites go by. The ISS and Space Shuttle will show up again tomorrow night, although not as long, but I'll try to get some better pictures then since tonight's photoshoot was kind of spur of the moment.

[rossmum]

Awesome.

[itszutak]

Woah. Those are some nice shots; I really do love shots of space and sattelites, even if I don't know how to spell them :/

+rep to you :)

[Timo]

Far, that's great.

[Amit]

Awesome, I would really like to see something like that but unfortunately we don't have space shuttles in Canada.