I caught the ISS tonight. Usually when the shuttle is up it is docked so there is nothing special. Tonight it wasnt docked, it was a few seconds behind so there were two dots in the night sky which was a very nice surprise for someone who goes out often to look at a dot moving in the sky.

I got some first attempt footage of it.




You can check siting opportunities from you area on the web site.

And it looks like other people are intrigued by this as well so there are many other videos of dots flying overhead and there are some neat ones of images from telescopes. I've been thinking that this would be a fun web site project if I could get my PTZ camera base hooked up to some sat tracking software with added motion tracking for auto fine tuning.




This one is kewl.




When I was a teenager I talked to the shuttle once on my ham radio. This was right after the astronauts started getting their licenses. It was a big deal back in a day, not so much now.

 

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