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Here we go - home made space station movie. It's only taken me ten weeks to do this.

I'm actually crying

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Here we go - home made space station movie. It's only taken me ten weeks to do this.

more info? sounds epic!

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So I've heard...

I'm guessing he's been taking pictures through a zoom lense at night. I keep meaning to look out for it.

ISS:- Mon Oct 21 6:35 PM, Visible: 4 min, Max Height: 84 degrees, Appears: W, Disappears: E

Here we go - home made space station movie. It's only taken me ten weeks to do this.

I read that caption with this image and thought wtf that's disgusting.

more info? sounds epic!

Yup, a telescope (effectively a 2000mm telephoto lens) with a DSLR hanging off the back, taking one shot a second while I wrestled to keep the ISS on the cross-hairs of a finder scope. Threw away most of the photos, as they were blank. Cropped the surviving 108 frames from 3888x2592 down to 720x540 pixels and applied a convolution consisting of a kernel that was the Dirac delta minus a gaussian blur kernel, converted them into an avi, which I then ran through another nifty bit of software that centres the ISS and cropped it down to 144x144 pixels, then converted it into a gif.

Well, you were kind enough to ask!

Truly epic, just epic.

You must felt chuffed to get the shot.

... applied a convolution consisting of a kernel that was the Dirac delta minus a gaussian blur kernel...

Where do I learn to speak like this?

The internet helped: I had to look up what the correct process was to increase the local contrast in the images to overcome the inevitable fuzziness when photographing something travelling at over 17,000 mph a few hundred miles overhead.

Can't stop watching;

Fucking ha!

Slightly longer than original;

Holy shit, that was CLOSE!

Where do I learn to speak like this?

University

The internet helped: I had to look up what the correct process was to increase the local contrast in the images to overcome the inevitable fuzziness when photographing something travelling at over 17,000 mph a few hundred miles overhead.

What do you reckon the angular speed to be? I guess I could look it up but if you know it...

Edit: And real nice effort! I'm tempted to try and snap the bugger but keep distracted by the slower moving targets...

It takes about 97 minutes to do an entire orbit of the earth so that's about 0.0619 degrees a second to someone watching from the centre of the earth.

From the surface of the earth, it's more like 280 seconds to go from 10 degrees up in the west to 10 degrees up in the east via the zenith so 160 degrees in 280 seconds = 0.57 degrees a second, which is just over a moon's width per second. But that's the average - because iit is so much further awy when you see it low in the sky than it is when it's overhead, its apparent speed at the zenith is muh faster than that.