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This is a perfect example of dumb luck. The night was terrible for photography, iffy even for visual observing. The wind was incessant and gusting to about 20 mph, shaking the telescope and camera. The seeing was pretty bad, too. It was dark up on the ridge, but that's all.
Venus and the Beehive star cluster (M44 in Cancer) were low, dipping into the western horizon in twilight. I couldn't even focus the camera, between the wind and my astigmatism. I started to not even shoot at all. But I did a rough setup, didn't bother with the autoguider, set the intervalometer to shoot twenty 30-second exposures, and wandered around the Blue Mountain Observatory star party. Somebody said "Ooh, look! The ISS!" when the Space Station was cruising right overhead. Nice and bright.
When I went back to the camera to review my shots, this is what I found on one of the frames. The ISS, dead center and artfully diagonal, trailed from lower right to upper left. Otherwise, the entire batch were throwaways. As it is, I tossed half of the frames to get this pretty weak result from stacking the survivors of the cull.
I couldn't have planned it. No way. If I'd tried to get that shot, I would have missed it by a few seconds for sure. Maybe the ISS orbital calculation would have been a little off, maybe the crew would have maneuvered the station so it was a little early or late. Something would have prevented it. You gotta love dumb luck, even when it tosses you a blurry picture.
Distances:
ISS: 1,700 km
Venus: 98,000,000 km
M44: 580 ly (5x10^15 km)
700mm f/8, stacked 10x 30 sec @ 800 ISO
S73-20236 (1 March 1973) --- The three members of the prime crew of the first manned Skylab mission dine on specially prepared Skylab space food in the wardroom of the crew quarters of the Skylab Orbital Workshop (OWS) trainer during Skylab training at the Johnson Space Center. They are, left to right, scientist-astronaut Joseph P. Kerwin, science pilot; astronaut Paul J. Weitz, pilot; and astronaut Charles Conrad Jr., commander. Photo credit: NASA
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Discovery, commanded by astronaut Brian Duffy, approaches to dock with the embryonic unmanned station over Africa in October 2000. The mission added the large Z1 truss to the Unity, Zarya and Zvezda modules, clearing the way for launch of the first ISS crew. Z1 structure in payload bay juts into the foreground.
Aviation Week & Space Technology Dec. 2001 (modified stereo window).
Taken from the IMAX movie Space Station
Original Photo © 2001 IMAX, NASA
The original from the magazine is www.flickr.com/photos/e_dubois/3401685865/
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S71-00163 (1970) --- View of Skylab Saturn IB Launch Configuration Complex 39B at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC). Photo credit: NASA
SL3-117-2109 (6 Aug. 1973) --- Scientist-astronaut Owen K. Garriott, Skylab 3 science pilot, participates in the Aug. 6, 1973 extravehicular activity (EVA) during which he and astronaut Jack Lousma, Skylab 3 pilot, deployed the twin pole solar shield to help shade the Orbital Workshop (OWS). Note the reflection of the solar shield in Garriott's helmet visor. Photo credit: NASA
SL2-05-390 (22 June 1973) --- Greater Detroit (42.0N, 82.5W) is located at the southeastern border of Michigan on the Detroit River across from Windsor, Ontario, Canada and Lake Huron to the north. The river connecting Lake Erie is a channel left over from the Ice Age Glaciers. The land use pattern in this scene is typical of this part of the upper Midwest. The once extensive forests have been cleared for farmland and pasture, but narrow rows of trees still line farm boundaries. Photo credit: NASA
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Astronaut, Naval aviator, flight surgeon. [Portraits.] Captain Joseph P. Kerwin, Medical Corps, U.S. Navy. 12/09/1971.
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PictionID:45272652 - Catalog:14_017965 - Title:Charts Details: Atlas Phase IV; Manned Space Station Date: 04/21/1958 - Filename:14_017965.TIF - - - - - Image from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
PictionID:53109230 - Catalog:14_030874 - Title:GD/Astronautics Models Details: Space Station Model with Marlene Byrne Date: 07/03/1958 - Filename:14_030874.tif - - Images from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
The International Space Station (ISS) passing undernearth Mars going into the cloud. 3 shots stacked.
“SPACE COLONY----Shown here is the 10,000-inhabitant space colony proposed by the NASA-Ames/Stanford 10-week summer study held at Ames. The approximately 20 professors from major U. S. universities, who did the study, say such a colony might be built with existing technology in 20 years, and might well pay for itself, perhaps with substantial profits. The wheel-like colony would be over a mile in diameter, with an interior diameter of about 200 yards. It would have an Earth-like interior environment and landscape (sunlight, flowers, trees) with interior views of up to a half a mile. The massive exterior of Moon rocks would shield inhabitants from cosmic radiation. Gravity would be provided by centrifugal force from the colony’s 1 rpm rotation. The colony would produce various products from lunar materials under economically advantageous space conditions--such as solar power stations to supply Earth, sister colonies, spacecraft, and electronic components for export to Earth. Unlimited power would be available from the Sun. Metals, glass and other materials would come from the Moon at a fraction of Earth cost. The mirror floating above the colony reflects sunlight into the ring mirrors below, which reflect it through 100-foot strip windows into the colony’s interior for light and agriculture. Above the core sphere are communications spacecraft docking facilities.”
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"The wheel-like design shown above...might be used for the first space colony. The mirror floating above the colony reflects sunlight into the ring mirrors below, which reflect it through 100-foot strip windows into the colony's interior for light and agriculture. Above the core sphere are communications and spacecraft docking facilities. Long rectangle in foreground is a heat radiator. The facility below the colony is the manufacturing area where lunar ore is melted with solar power. Lower central sphere is the original "construction shack" for the colony.""
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SL3-114-1759 (25 Sept. 1973) --- Skylab 3 Command Module drogue chutes deployment. Photo credit: NASA
ISS crossing the Pentland Hills at Harlaw Reservoir tonight at twilight. 5 shots blended to get the travel right over the hills and to take out the cyclist with million watt lights that passed by as I took the 4th frame!
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Did you know spiders can fly? Well, these orb spiders did on space shuttle mission STS-126. Once aboard the International Space Station, the astronauts noticed the spiders' webs weren't the elegant tapestries found on Earth. Instead, the zero-G spiders produced tangled, irregular weaves.
Oh, and in case you wonder what the spiders ate -- the mission also included a tasty supply of fruit flies.
Image credit: NASA
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SL2-16-174 (22 June 1973) --- Norfolk and the lower Chesapeake Bay, VA (37.5N, 75.5W) at the interface of the Atlantic Ocean can be seen to be a mixture of complex currents. Outgoing tides from the bay generate considerable turbulence as they encounter coastal currents and can be observed by the sediment plumes stirred up as a result of current dynamics. Smooth flowing water has less sediment and appears darker. Turbulent water has lots of sediment and appears lighter in color. Photo credit: NASA
S73-27509 (6 June 1973) --- Scientist-astronaut Joseph P. Kerwin (right), Skylab 2 science pilot and a doctor of medicine, takes a blood sample from astronaut Charles Conrad Jr., Skylab 2 commander, as seen in this reproduction taken from a color television transmission made by a TV camera aboard the Skylab 1 and 2 space station cluster in Earth orbit. The blood sampling was part of the Skylab Hematology and Immunology Experiment M110 series. Photo credit: NASA
MSP-01 Assault Shuttle
Designed by NASA in co-operation with certain Departments of Defense from countries around the world, this shuttles main mission is to "get rid of" enemy sattelites and space stations built for spying purposes. Equipped with four rocket powered hydrogen bombs the MSP-01 can destroy two large sized or four medium sized targets on one mission.
The MSP-01 is designed to look like a non hostile shuttle, this to bypass any ships that might be defending the target. If necessary, the MSP-01 has two heavy-duty cannons that can be used to eliminate the threat of hostile ships. These cannons can shoot different types of rocket powered ammunition all with their own purpose which can be selected by the gunner.
Specifications:
- 4 liquid-fuel rocket engines with seperate resevoir tanks
- Top speed of 19550mph with all engines at full power
- Crew consists of a pilot and a gunner
- 2 cannons with up to 3 different types of ammo each (explosives, electric circuit killers, armour penetrating nerve gas capsules)
- 4 small rocket powered hydrogen bombs
- Can go from flight/stealth mode to assault mode within 15 seconds ; hydrogen bombs ready to fire within 20 seconds. Cannons can be fired at any time
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My entry for the Real World Starfighter Contest. I had a lot of fun building this micro scale MOC and I think it turned out pretty good! The shuttle's hatch can open and close.
SL2-05-458 (22 June 1973) --- Portions of northwest Washington State (48.0N, 122.5) can be seen in this view as well as portions of British Columbia, Canada. The snow covered Cascade Mountains are on the eastern side of the scene. Vancouver Island is visible in the northeast corner of the photo. The strait of Juan de Fuca separates Vancouver Island from the northwest corner of Washington. Seattle is near the center and the snow covered Olympic Mountains are to the east. Photo credit: NASA
SL2-81-162 (22 June 1973) --- The most striking feature of this scene of the western Great Plains and the Badlands of SD (43.5N, 101.0W) is the rugged topography of the landscape. Over eons of time, the White River has carved out a badlands topography of steep gullies, irregular winding ridges and isolated buttes. The barren wasteland of badlands light toned rock surfaces contrast sharply with the adjacent vegetated landscape of native grasslands and cultivated fields. Photo credit: NASA
SL3-122-2558 (July-September 1973) --- Skylab 3 Earth view of southwest Turkey, Aegean Sea, Rhodes, Lesbos and Samos. Photo credit: NASA
SL2-05-380 (22 June 1973) --- Ottawa, in the province of Ontario, (46.5N, 75.5W) is the capital of Canada and can be seen near the bottom of this scene on the Ottawa River. The region shown lies within the Canadian Shield. The glaciated surface of the land is underlain by lower Precambrian granite and sedimentary rock. Long fractures within these crystalline rocks have, in places, been carved out by glacial action. The resultant depressions are often water filled bogs and lakes. Photo credit: NASA
This was the middle-of-the-night pass of the Space Station, at 1:55 am on June 5, 2013, with twilight glow to the north and a low aurora. The view in this 360° fish-eye lens image is looking due north – Polaris is at centre, the Big Dipper at left, Cassiopeia at right
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This is a stack of 4 x 2.5 minute tracked exposures with the Sigma 8mm lens at f/3.5 and Canon 5D MkII at ISO 1600. The gaps are from 5 second intervals between exposures. © 2013 Alan Dyer
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Tonight the International Space Station, and the Hubble Space Telescope passed overhead.
Unfortunately the Hubble was too faint to pick up on a fisheye lens, but the ISS was bright enough.
This is a 9 shot composite image showing the ISS on a static sky, with the ground corrected from the original fisheye look.
The gaps are the moments between frames as I was manually pressing the shutter and the ISS moves pretty quickly.
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there is one very strong connection between my characters commander kylie shepard of mass effect and commander kyle of second life: they both drink a lot. a great deal of sl rp time is spent hanging out in bars (its a good place for people to congregate), and in mass effect kylie shepard has been to all the bars in the galaxy (well, all they show) on ilium, the citadel, and omega. she has had the mystery drink from the asari matriarch, almost been poisoned by a human-hating batarian, and had that krogan drink that knocks you out.
and, as with my sl character, the mass effect kylie knocks them back in one gulp. lol.
in this pic, she is drinking on the normandy, in the crew area where katsumi stays.
in the normandy crew bar there are two drinks: blue and red. the significance is that these are the colors for the two ethical/moral stances you can take: paragon (like good) and renegade (like bad). i don't think any thing happens if you drink the 'wrong' one, but, kylie drinks the blue.
i have been playing her mainly paragon, although you can't simply do one or the other. sometimes its obvious (i.e., do you tell the merc to 'get lost' or push him out a window to fall 300 meters?), and sometimes its not (on Tali's mission, at first i was proding her to fight the geth so that quarians could retake their homeworld, which is renegade... although i later, changed that position.) in both cases i was just playing the character and not worrying (well, not too much) about the gameplay consequences.
the one time i deliberately chose renegade was the mission to help Thane's son. some slimeball was in an interrogation room and kylie just beat the shit out him to get the information. (although, she does not condone this - on the prison ship Purgatory she stopped the beating of a random prisoner). for thane's son, it was too personal.
on Jacob's loyalty mission, i was sorely tempted to let him shoot Capt. Taylor. in fact, i should have done that, i didn't only for gameplay reason - i wanted more paragon points.
this picture was taken before the attack on the collector ship to obtain the iff for the omega 4 relay, but the best time for drinking - from a story point of view - was right after a mini-mission to stop a pair of batarian missiles which were headed for a human colony. at the end - and much to my surprise - you can defeat the terrorists but only stop one of the missiles. so you have to choose which set of humans are going to be killed. yeah, yeah, its only a game, and i'm not losing sleep about it in real life. but, at the time, right after that choice kylie needed a drink... or four.
(and yes, i know, from the picture it looks like she has a 'drinking problem' but i didn't want to spend an hour just edit the liquid to be on the correct side of the glass.)
SL3-88-004 (July-September 1973) --- A vertical view of the Salinas River Valley area south of Monterey Bay, California area is seen in this Skylab 3 Earth Resources Experiments Package S190-B (five-inch Earth terrain camera) photograph taken from the Skylab space station in Earth orbit. The valley is an irrigated agricultural area, and is indicated by the dark-green and light-gray rectangular patterns in the centre of the picture. The city of Salinas is barely visible under the cloud cover at the top (north) end of the valley. The dark mass on the left (west) side of the valley is the Santa Lucia mountain range. The Big Sur area is on the left and partly covered by clouds. The Diablo Range forms the dark mass in the lower right (southeast) corner of the photograph. The town of Hollister is the gray area in the dark-green rectangular farm tracts which occupy the floor of the San Benito Valley in the upper right (northeast) corner of the photograph. The Salinas River flows northwestward toward Monterey Bay. The towns of Soledad, Greenfield and King City appear as gray areas along U.S. 101 in the Salinas Valley. The geology of the area is complex, and has been racked by several earthquakes resulting from movement along the San Andreas and subsidiary faults. Here, the surface expression of the San Andreas Fault can be traced from a point just west of Hollister at the contrast of dark brown and tan to a point about one inch left of the lower right (southeast) corner of the picture. Subsidiary faults are indicated by the curving trend of the rocks along the right side. The photograph will provide detailed information on land use patterns (Dr. R. Colwell, University of California, Berkeley) and fault tectonics (Dr. P. Merifield, Earth Science Res., Inc. and Dr. M. Abdel-Gawad, Rockwell International). Federal agencies participating with NASA on the EREP project are the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Corps of Engineers. All EREP photography is available to the public through the Department of Interior's Earth Resources Observations Systems Data Center, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 57198. Photo credit: NASA
On October, 25 two Japanese guys passed the training on Egress-2 simulator. This unique training in Orlan spacesuits enables the cosmonauts to practice further extravehicular activities. Special systems simulate support-free condition thus participants of the training feel like real cosmonauts performing a spacewalk.
Наши гости из Японии 25 октября прошли тренировку в ЦПК на тренажере Выход-2. Эта уникальная тренировка с использованием скафандров Орлан позволяет космонавтам отрабатывать предстоящие операции в открытом космосе. Системы тренажера имитируют безопорное состояние, таким образом, создается впечатление, будто участники тренировки работают в открытом космосе, а это действительно невероятные ощущения.
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Three different varieties of plants growing in the Veggie plant growth chamber on the International Space Station were harvested this morning. Photo credit: NASA/ISS
S73-35078 (July-Sept. 1973) --- A nearly vertical view of the Phoenix, Arizona metropolitan area is seen in this Skylab 3 (second manning) Earth Resources Experiments Package S190-B (five-inch earth terrain camera) photograph taken from the Skylab space station in earth orbit. Also in the picture are Scottsdale, Paradise Valley, Tempe, Mesa, Komatke, Salt River Indian Reservation and part of the Gila River Indian Reservation. Features which can be delineated from the photograph include: cultural patterns defined by commercial, industrial, agricultural and residential areas; transportation networks consisting of major corridors, primary, secondary and feeder streets; major urban developments in the area such as airports, Squaw Peak City Park, Turf Paradise Race Track and the State Fairgrounds. Phoenix is one of the 27 census cities of interest under study by the U.S. Geological Survey and is the center of the Arizona Regional Ecological Test Site. A large number of investigators will be using the Skylab data. This photo will be compared to earlier ones to document changes in the urban area with time. The landscape is well defined in terms of mountains, alluvial fans and river flood plains. Several different types of natural vegetation and irrigated crop lands can be mapped. Geological features are not well displayed but mining activities are readily identified. Photo credit: NASA
S72-47794 (March 1972) --- Skylab, a 100-ton manned orbital scientific space station, is scheduled to be launched and placed in near-Earth orbit early in 1973. The program's nine prime crewmen, selected for the three manned Skylab missions, are pictured with an artist's concept of a completely deployed cluster of the Skylab components in Earth orbit. The first Skylab mission will launch and place in orbit the hardware shown here with the exception of the Apollo-type spacecraft docked at left end. The Command and Service Modules (CSM) will on three occasions in a projected eight-month period go up and dock with the Skylab cluster, thus transporting a fresh crew of three astronauts to conduct several weeks of experimenting and observations. Those manned missions will be known as Skylabs II, III and IV. They have as their crewmen the following astronauts: Skylab II -- Charles Conrad Jr., commander; Joseph P. Kerwin, science pilot; and Paul J. Weitz, pilot. Skylab III -- Alan L. Bean, commander; Owen K. Garriot, science pilot; and Jack R. Lousma, pilot. Skylab IV -- Gerald P. Carr, commander; Edward G. Gibson, science pilot; and William R. Pogue, pilot. Photo credit: NASA
The @Space_Station in the @LincsSkies above #Blyton
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