ISS Photo I Took
I took a photo of the International Space Station through my telescope. It is my first, so it is okay, but I am pleased. It was not easy, since it was moving fast. Try catching something moving at 17,000 mph!
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That's awesome!!! My buddy has got a 12 inch telescope that we toy around with. Saturn and Jupiter look AMAZING through it. You can see the moons circling around them.. This pic is really neat. We discussed getting a camera to mount to it.
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Try taking a photo of a comet, Ptarmigan, because they travel through space at well over one hundred miles per hour.Ptarmigan wrote:I took a photo of the International Space Station through my telescope. It is my first, so it is okay, but I am pleased. It was not easy, since it was moving fast. Try catching something moving at 17,000 mph!
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Comets are much easier to photograph as they don't move much compared to the background stars over an exposure time of a few minutes. I took some photos of Comet Hale-Bopp back in the spring of 1997. They were taken in a cemetery in Latium, TX (NW of Bellville). My camera was an Olympus OM-1 mounted piggyback on my Criterion Dynascope 6" reflector with clock drive.sleetstorm wrote:Try taking a photo of a comet, Ptarmigan, because they travel through space at well over one hundred miles per hour.Ptarmigan wrote:I took a photo of the International Space Station through my telescope. It is my first, so it is okay, but I am pleased. It was not easy, since it was moving fast. Try catching something moving at 17,000 mph!
My car and telescope in a field of bluebonnets next to the cemetery:
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Those are some good pictures of Hale-Bopp's comet, wxman57.