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    ISS and Space Shuttle Discovery on her last mission (STS-133) - over Northern Germany, Feb. 26th 2011, 18:40 (GMT)



    Since Nov. 5th 2010 was I waiting for this thing finaly to lift off. Specially because I participated in the NASA Face in Space promo action and have shot my mother into space with her

    I use the website www.heavens-above.com
    I am not afraid of Tits

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    Re: about pushing the limits of the 70-300

    Nice one
    so exposure , ISO,...etc...I wanna have a go!
    chris
    shetland

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    • #3
      Re: about pushing the limits of the 70-300 (Shuttle)

      I have to be honest here Falk - except for your narrative this image could be taken as a glint of chrome in a car park on a pitch black night.

      Nice try though, mate!

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        Re: about pushing the limits of the 70-300

        Haha Mark, you should know that there is no place near by where it would be pitch black - because of all the light pollution we have

        Now, I've gone through the pain of arranging a series of shots showing the complete flypast of ISS and Discovery to back me up:


        Considering the distance I was amazed that I got anything to see at all - other then a dot of bright light that is! My E-30's time was apparently only very few seconds off, as the calculated time (local) for the ISS to enter Earth shadow was given as 19:41:00.
        One problem though, I ran out of buffer size about the culmination point and had to wait a few precious seconds for the camera to write the files onto the CF card. Seems as I need a faster one ...

        Cheers,
        Falk
        I am not afraid of Tits

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        • #5
          Re: about pushing the limits of the 70-300

          Remarkable!

          Ian
          Founder and editor of:
          Olympus UK E-System User Group (https://www.e-group.uk.net)

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          • #6
            Re: about pushing the limits of the 70-300

            OK Falk, I will concede that you have certainly pushed the lens to it limits.
            Scientifically you can chalk it up as a considerable achievement.
            Aesthetically ... ... well, a Martian would love it I guess!

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            • #7
              Re: about pushing the limits of the 70-300

              You're so lucky to have managed to take these pictures, a bit of cloud cover and you'd have lost the chance.
              - my pictures -

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              • #8
                Re: about pushing the limits of the 70-300

                Mark, yes - the scientific significance is what it is all about
                I compare this to nature photography (as I see it): with some elusive critter you rather can/should be lucky with a blurred pic - then no pic at all.

                Ellie, your are so right! In fact, I had tried the same feat the day before. When I looked outside a little before time, to see if the sky was clear, it was. But, only fifteen minutes later, with the ISS overhead, there was already and quite unfortunately a thin layer of clouds. I took some photos anyways - but I better spare you those. The Discovery was not near the ISS at that time, so the test was no major loss.
                I am not afraid of Tits

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