21 May 2011

¡¡ESPECTACULAR!!

Yesterday while I was at dinner, the observatory assistant working at my telescope left a note that was a sky map with the International Space Stations's fly-by marked and labeled "¡¡ESPECTACULAR!!"

After getting everything set up for the night, I took the camera and tripod outside and got this nice picture. I know I should have exposed for longer, but the twilight was still really bright, and I feared over exposure.

So there you go, ISS (with Endeavour still docked to it!) flying by Cerro Tololo. It did a nice large arc missing zenith, the point directly overhead, by merely 3 degrees, I believe. It was rather spectacular.

2 comments:

Renée said...

¡Me gustan tus fotos!

Rachael said...

¡Gracias!