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The Alien Zoo (Exosphere starbase module)
The zoo holds many different species and their natural bio-environments. They can be called up from the front panel menu system.
The Waxing Gibbous Moon met the International Space Station, at least that's what it looked like from near the Sebastian Inlet Tuesday night.
A mere 438km away, the Space Station flew across the face of the Moon in just over a half a second (.59, to be exact). This is the first time I've shot stills of a Lunar Transit (aka "spray and pray"), and I managed to capture the ISS in 4 frames, shown here in a 4-shot composite. It was breezy, chilly, and the Moon was quite high in the sky. Considering how much the lens was moving around in the breeze, I was uncertain I'd capture anything, but at least one of the frames is pretty sharp.
Also, I was shooting with the always-talented John Kraus / John Kraus Photos and Marcus Cote / Marcus Cote Photography, both of whom got great shots. Go check them out.
Details:
ISO800, f5.6 and 1/3200 sec, shot with a Canon 7D2 with a 500mm + 1.4x combo.
Transit details (from transit-finder.com):
Tuesday 2019-01-15 20:50:48.50 • Lunar transit
ISS angular size: 63.02″; distance: 438.46 km
Angular separation: 0.0′; azimuth: 227.9°; altitude: 67.6°
Center line distance: 0.03 km; visibility path width: 4.06 km
Transit duration: 0.59 s; transit chord length: 31.7′
R.A.: 03h 02m; Dec: +11° 51′; parallactic angle: -38.4°
ISS velocity: 54.2 ′/s (angular); 6.91 km/s (transverse)
ISS velocity: -2.62 km/s (radial); 7.39 km/s (total);
Direction of motion relative to zenith: -2.3°
Moon angular size: 31.7′; 30.2 times larger than the ISS
Moon phase: 67.9%; angular separation from Sun: 110.9°
Sun altitude: -39.8°; the ISS will be in shadow
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A scene with the main character and his troops against Separatist forces in the hangar bay. It is if but many new techniques that we wish to improve on later on. As such, this is all from the latest chapter of "The Jedi Mercenary".
At the prime focus of Celestron EdgeHD 925 telescope.
The ISS was at a height of 425km and travelling at 30,000km/hour.
The technique for taking these is described here: www.flickr.com/photos/ejwwest/sets/72157623878835436/comm...
and here: ejwwest.wordpress.com/imaging-the-international-space-sta...
All kinds of activity in lunar orbit.
A visual feast, possibly rendered by either Ludwik Źiemba, William Collopy or Anthony Saporito, or some combination thereof.
By extrapolation of other works, possibly on behalf of Lockheed Missiles & Space Company.
This is the passage of the International Space Station (the bright streak going from west to east, right to left) on September 13, 2024, passing above the bright waxing gibbous Moon low in the south. The lens field of view wasn't quite wide enough to capture the end of the path at left when the ISS faded into Earth's shadow. The bright star above the ISS trail at top centre is Altair.
At this time the ISS had a record 12 astronauts on board, including veteran Don Pettit and the two Starliner test astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams. There were also 5 Russian cosmonauts on board, and 4 other NASA astronauts.
There were also a record 19 people in space at this time, also counting the 4 crew members of the private SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission, and the 3 taikonauts on board the Chinese Tiangong space station. Neither craft are in this picture!
Technical:
This is a stack of 14 x 15-second exposures taken from home in Alberta (latitude 51° N) on a bright moonlit night, with the Viltrox 16mm lens at f/2.8 on the Nikon Z6III at ISO 400. The gaps in the ISS trail are from the 1s interval between exposures. Only the first image was used for the ground and sky, to keep the stars as pinpoint as possible. The subsequent exposures were masked to add just the ISS trail onto the base image, using a Lighten blend mode.
I love the user interface to illuminate the status of a flow digram of control valves and sensors... and how the errors in the engraved groove lines have been painted over.
There were two Mir Space Stations. One burned up on reentry, ending its space odyssey in 2001. The second was used for astronaut training in Russia. This control console and monitor comes from the one that survived, and was used by every astronaut and cosmonaut that visited Mir.
The Mir space station orbited the earth for fifteen years; its assembly in orbit began with the core module launch in 1986 and continued for ten years. It was occupied by a crew for more than twelve years of its fifteen year life, playing host to 125 space travelers from twelve different countries. After 86,331 total orbits, Mir re-entered Earth's atmosphere on March 23, 2001, breaking up over the southern Pacific Ocean.
A Northrop Grumman Antares rocket carrying a Cygnus spacecraft loaded with cargo bound for the International Space Station arrives at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport’s Pad-0A, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2022, at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Northrop Grumman’s 18th contracted cargo resupply mission with NASA to the International Space Station will deliver more than 8,000 pounds of science and research, crew supplies and vehicle hardware to the orbital laboratory and its crew. The CRS-18 Cygnus spacecraft is named after the first American woman in space, Sally Ride, and is scheduled to launch at 5:50 a.m., Sunday, Nov. 6, 2022, EST. Photo Credit: (NASA/Brian Bonsteel)
NASA's workhorse Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off from Kennedy Space Center on the way to the International Space Station on its historic final mission on February 24, 2011. STS-133 is the final mission for Discovery as NASA begins retiring the entire shuttle fleet.
Two stars will merge in 2022 and explode into red fury
Get ready for a big nova event ( Prediction)
This is great news for space fans .Also i'd already posted about Supernova.
“We don’t know if it’s right or wrong, but it’s the first time we can make a prediction,” Molnar says. At 2nd magnitude, it’ll be easy if it see if the prediction was correct.
“You won’t need a telescope in 2022 to tell me if I was wrong or I was right,” he says
In 2022, there will be a spectacular sky show. Two stars will merge into one, pushing out excess gas into an explosion known as a red nova. At magnitude 2, it will be as bright as Polaris in the sky, and just behind Sirius and Vega in brightness. The collision in the constellation of Cygnus will be visible for up to six months.
That’s pretty impressive. What’s more impressive: we’ve never been able to predict a nova before. But Lawrence Molnar, a professor of astronomy and physics at Calvin College, was able to find a pair of oddly behaving stars giving an indication of what might happen.
The objects, termed KIC 9832227, are currently contact binaries. Contact binary refers to two objects that are so close they are currently touching. The object was discovered by Kepler. The expected outcome is a merger between the two stars that will put on quite a show. Because both are low mass stars, the expected temperature is low, with Molnar terming it a “red nova.”
how does Molnar know what will happen? After all, as he puts it, it’s “a very specific prediction that can be tested, and a big explosion.” He and his team First observed in 2008, astronomers were able to watch the light curve as the event unfolded. First, there were a few “booms” in the sky. Then, a spectacular light show unfolded. Using precovery data, astronomers were able to trace back the evolution from 2001 on, giving a big picture of the decade of progression of the event.
see more how two stars merge
astrobites.org/2012/08/01/two-stars-merged-and-we-got-to-...
How did they know it was a merging star?
“V1309 was (brightening) before the explosion,” Molnar said in a press conference at the 229th meeting of the American Astronomical Society. “It isn’t doing it today. That’s the smoking gun of a merging star.”
Using Kepler data, Molnar found that KIC 9832227 fit the lightcurve of V1309 almost perfectly. All radial velocity measurements seem to indicate a contact binary, and by aligning the light curve to the period in time, he and his team came to the conclusion that the merger would complete in 2022.
About Image : Red Nova
credit : STScI _ Molnar and his team
It's a lot easier to wait hours and hours for your flight when you have a camera to play with, let me tell ya...
The new Bangkok airport looks positively modern(and freaky).
5 exposure HDR
This looks better large on black
Expanse. Nauvoo / Behemoth / Medina Station
Not that happy with it as I literally making it out of the Lego leftovers of my fleet so somethings are not to scale as I don’t have the bricks. Better start to decommission some of my ships.
Anyway, I got a recognisable shape hopefully.
This photograph shows the launch of the SA-513, a modified uncrewed two-stage Saturn V vehicle for the Skylab-1 mission, which placed the Skylab cluster into Earth orbit on May 14, 1973. The initial step in the Skylab mission was the launch of a two-stage Saturn V booster, consisting of the S-IC first stage and the S-II second stage, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Its payload was the unmanned Skylab, which consisted of the Orbital Workshop, the Airlock Module, the Multiple Docking Adapter, the Apollo Telescope Mount and an Instrument Unit.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: 108-KSC-73PC-284
Date: May 14, 1973
I was watching the video on YouTube when I took this picture with printscreen... To see the video, click here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvfjjwihZ48
Taken using the ISS HD Earth Viewing Experiment and the cameraphone app...your own pictures from space, so cool, I'm in Nerd Heaven! Be warned, it is highly addictive :)
The ISS is the largest Space Station/ laboratory ever built orbiting the Earth, it can be spotted with the naked eye at certain times as it orbits the planet at 17500mph at an altitude of roughly 200 miles.
Spotting the station is very easy and you don’t need any special equipment, only your eyes.
To capture this photograph our Canon 600D was attached prime focus to our Maksutov 127mm telescope, whilst Simon tracked in the finderscope - continuously readjusting, I monitored on the live view as it zoomed across the camera screen and clicked a couple of shots!
We were hindered with cloud cover tonight and this was the best of our shots ;0)
ISO 1600, 1/500
The International Space Station (ISS) travels across the sky on December 2, 2019, beginning at 6:08 p.m. MST, from due west at left to due east at right, passing high in the north at centre in this 360° fish-eye view. At right, the ISS fades from view at it experiences sunset, dimming and reddening as it passes above the Pleiades.
This was from home in Alberta with a waxing quarter Moon providing the illumination, with the Moon behind the camera due south and out of frame. This is looking due north. I am posing for a selfie with the Station.
This is a stack of 7 x 40-second exposures for the ISS path, masked and blended in Lighten mode onto a single image for the sky, foreground, and me! That background layer was shot immediately after the last ISS frame. All with the 8mm Sigma fish-eye lens at f/3.5 and Canon EOS Ra at ISO 1000.
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A Northrop Grumman Antares rocket carrying a Cygnus spacecraft loaded with cargo bound for the International Space Station departs the Horizontal Integration Facility on its way to the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport’s Pad-0A, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2022, at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Northrop Grumman’s 18th contracted cargo resupply mission with NASA to the International Space Station will deliver more than 8,000 pounds of science and research, crew supplies and vehicle hardware to the orbital laboratory and its crew. The Cygnus spacecraft is named after the first American woman in space, Sally Ride, and is scheduled to launch at 5:50 a.m., Sunday, Nov. 6, 2022, EST. Photo Credit: (NASA/Brian Bonsteel)
The International Space Station streaks across California at 17,000mph. That is almost 5 miles per second. Here, seen over Deer Valley in Antioch, CA.
I used the built in GPS and Astrotracer feature on the K3II to minimize star trailing. Lens was the Sigma 8-16mm at 8mm, so the stars still fan out at the edges due to the extreme wide angle distortion.
Anyhow, I look forward to warm nights to do more astrophotography. More Astrotracer pics here: www.flickr.com/photos/mikeoria/albums/72157649944280914
Thanks for looking!
I want to go more in depth with this concept. Previously, I made stuff that kind of made sense with physics but that maybe was not as practical. This might be the start of an ongoing project to make a minifigure-scale space station.
Backstory: Sol 3.5a orbits the Sun between Earth and Mars (which is another calculation that I'm too tired to do right now but will most definitely get to). The station is a series of habitat modules spinning about a docking bay with a main generator as a counter-weight.
Specs: For the calculations above, I wanted the minimum artificial gravity to be (0.9)g and for the maximum transverse acceleration to be g/20 when travelling at 3m/s radially (along the tether). From the calculations above, this means that the shortest tether (which is only one part of the stations length) would be around 1.3km--corresponding to about .78rpm rotation of the entire station.
So these numbers sound doable in the future I've been building. If they can build a space elevator, then surely they at least can design this monster right?
However, If you translate 1.3km into minifigure-scale, you get roughly 3,670 studs. For just the marked distance r. That is beyond insane and so far, I have no plans to design something that big, let alone a computer powerful enough to do so. Most likely what I will do is design the habitat modules and the docking bay and generator and then make a SECTION of the tether (which is not just a thick cable as people and supplies and power need to run along it) And then simply pattern-layer the cable pieces in any renderings.
NEEDLESS TO SAY, THE DRAWING ABOVE IS NOT TO SCALE.
Thoughts?
Should I try a forced-perspective station instead?
“AFT CARGO CARRIER (ACC) CONCEPT SPACE STATION
This configuration uses modules of two sizes. One size is compatible with the Space Shuttle cargo bay dimensions; the other, with a proposed Aft Cargo Carrier (ACC). Teleoperator Maneuvering System (TMS) would retrieve cargo brought up in the ACC. This system permits the launching of modules up to 25 feet in diameter. The space station depicted will house 12 crew members.”
I suppose the external tank in the background still has the payload attached, with the TMS enroute to get it.
Beautiful work by Martin Marietta artist/illustrator John G. Tieleman. A hollow win, gone way too early:
allstatescremation.com/tribute/details/149267/John-Tielem...
Credit: All-States Cremation website
Excellent context, with additional images. Always excellent. I really gotta become a Patreon:
www.aerospaceprojectsreview.com/blog/?p=426
www.aerospaceprojectsreview.com/blog/?p=777
www.aerospaceprojectsreview.com/blog/?p=3938
Specifically, the configuration being the one at lower left/"pg. 18":
www.aerospaceprojectsreview.com/catalog/spacedoc58.jpg
All above credit: Aerospace Projects Review Blog website
This artist's illustration shows a cutaway view of the Skylab Orbital Workshop (OWS). The OWS is one of the five major components of the Skylab 1 space station cluster which was launched by a Saturn V on May 14, 1973 into Earth orbit.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: S73-23918
Date: May 23, 1973
flickr image composite link flic.kr/p/QhBasG
Took me a few days to edit, but here is the video version of the International Space Station Australia Day Solar Crossing.
Australia celebrates our National Day and the International Space Station (invisible to the naked eye) silently crosses directly through the middle of the Sun over Brisbane Botanic Gardens & Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium, Mount Coot-tha, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
The ISS also passed over AR2629 one of three visible Sunspot regions appearing on the face of the Sun today.
14 Frames composited to one image.
International Space Station
26 January 2017 - 15h51m43.87s.
Crosses the disk of the Sun
Brisbane Botanic Gardens & Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium,
Mount Coot-tha, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Transit duration: 0.99s
Path Width: 9.3km.
Diameter of ISS: Angular size: 41.55″
Size=109.0m x 73.0m x 27.5m.
Satellite at Azimuth=266.4° W
Altitude=36.6° Distance=667.9 km.
Angular Velocity=32.4'/s
Ground Speed=7.791 km/s