“The camera used was a monochrome, 640×480-pixel webcam running at 60 frames per second and I took 4,700 images combining the best 30 or so to produce the image. “I took it through my homebuilt 8.5-inch reflector from my back garden in St Albans and the telescope was hand-guided to follow the path of the ISS as it rose in the west and passed overhead.
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Martin, a software engineer and member of the Society for Popular Astronomy, said: “The image was taken after rushing home from work to get the scope cooling in time for the pass. Martin produced a new annotated image identifying various parts of the orbiting space station and shuttle. In fact, further research, with the help of Dutch imager Ralf Vandebergh, reveals that this was a different robotic arm, Steve is still in the photo but on the other side of the shuttle and not shining quite so brightly.Īt the time the photo was taken, Steve was halfway through a long spacewalk. The CALorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) space experiment. It was that which Martin originally believed was NASA astronaut Steve Bowen. of the CALorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) on the International Space Station. You can also view the ISS with your naked eyes while it moves across the sky at thousands of miles per hour. It is easily spotted, as it is the third brightest object that appears during nighttime, after the Moon and Venus. Martin Lewis with another of his telescopesĪt the end of a robotic arm stretching from the shuttle, called the Canadarm, can be seen a bright spot. Januby Nancy Atkinson Space Station Gets a New Telescope Astronauts on the International Space Station today are installing a new modified Celestron telescope. The International Space Station can be viewed from various locations around the planet.