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Your International Space Station photos   Backdropped against the blackness of space, the International Space Station seen from Space Shuttle Discovery as it approached during rendezvous and docking activities on 6 July 2006.  Steven Penfold from Hampshire, England, captured this colourful timelapse photograph of ISS passing Jupiter on the night of 16 June 2006.  Image shows the trace of the International Space Station as it passed over Fontefria, in Spain - star constellations have been superimposed to give orientation in the night sky. The photo was taken with a Canon Powershot A85 ISO400 15" exposure. Location: Fontefria (A Cañiza- Pontevedra - Spain) Lat:42.2308° N, 8.3156° W Elevation: 790 meters Time Zone: GMT +2:00 Summer time  Animation of International Space Station captured by John Locker from the Wirral, England. This video was captured using a Philips webcam attached to an 8 inch Meade telescope. Tracking is manual.
Orbit 43250.7 3h56m09s -1.9m az:183.1d S h:60.9d dist:400.9km alt:353.3km  Alberto Zampieron from Gattinara, near Vercelli, in Italy, took this ISS image using a Newton 114/900 and a webcam, he followed the ISS manually through the finder.  Using manual tracking Paco Bellido, from Cordoba, in Spain, used a Celestron 9,25" Schmidt-Cassegrin telescope with a barlow lens TeleVue PowerMate 2.5X and a Canon EOS 350D camera at ISO 800 1/125 sec. exposure setting (4 July 2006)  This image was taken by Enrique Luque Cervigón, from the city of Alcalá de Henares in Spain. The ISS is the white line at the top of the image, whereas the one at the bottom is a contrail from an airplane. Release date: 18 July 2006 |