ISS & ATV

Got up early to see these two - considered getting the Dob out but the sky wasn't so good with a large cloud covering part of the path so went for 15sec trails instead. Heavens Above shows ATV at mag 0.1 but it was at least a magnitude less than Arcturus hence is a faint line on the image.

ISS at 0547



ATV at 0549



Note ATV is on a lower path - star at top is Arcturus.

Were it not for the big cloud I reckon I could have got both in the same frame at 16mm - certainly I could see both simultaneously.

Wow Paul, your becoming a bit of a regular on Spaceweather.com!

spaceweather.com/submissions/large_image...80311_1205224279.jpg

Thanks Frank! I've been getting on SW pretty regularly since my August 2004 Perseid shot which was frame 1 on a roll of 37 exposure film, the other 36 of which had nothing worthwhile on them!

I'm hoping to get 3 spaceships passing over my house tomorrow, though the weather is very unfavourable - even if the weather is clear the tripod will need to be bolted down!

Its docking right now with the ISS, look at
www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html?param=public
Its really cool !!!