SpaceX DM-2 Docked to ISS in 4K

Okay that's called radar, that's not the same as stuffing a bat in your telescope. Again, I don't need that because I can use parallax to meas ure size distance and speed. I've done it already. I've already posted it on the thread. Stop trolling my thread.

LOL FAF!!

Yes, you're a troll. Parallax can be used to calculate real distance. Fuck off and stop switching IP.

You have the patience of a saint, Astro. I have no idea how you put up with these drooling idiots.

Thanks again for all of the great vids and knowledge!

We all know NASA is CGI bullshit. the earth is flat and has a firmament protecting it.

WHERES THE LIVESTREAM EARTH IN 2020???
ASTOSHILL

:rere23:

Here you go:
[link to epic.gsfc.nasa.gov (secure)]

sure thing astro... did that stowaway mouse get his own little room in the iss.. absolute bullshit

There was no mouse. Just ice on the exhaust manifold, which is normal and happens every time:
19:16, 22:49 - [link to www.youtube.com (secure)]
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Good work Mut!

Me thinks you have too much fun with your work (lucky guy)and that you're masochistic for posting your work here but WE THANK YOU!


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What would those images look like if done from an altitude of 10-13000ft with extremely low light pollution?

They'd look almost indistinguishable at that altitude. ISS would not be much closer to the telescope and light pollution doesn't affect these images because ISS itself is so bright and the exposure is 1/250th of a second for most of the video.

I saw the ISS fly by once in the night sky in Shenandoah National Park a few years ago. Was good stuff. Right after a briefing by a NASA employee.

It flew by up there pretty fast. Is that why your video only captures it for about a minute? I don't know how you kept the image so still too since that thing was really bookin' when I saw it with my own unaided eyes.

Also expected your image to be much bigger. If I could see the white blip with my own eyes, I thought through a telescope would make it huge.

FAKE

Fixed it for ya!

That is huge for an object this size this far away. This is with the equivalent of 4 meters of focal length. 8 meters focal length if you count the crop factor of the micro 4/3 sensor. Imagine an optical tube 26 feet long (if it weren't a catadioptric, which it is, and if it was actual focal length instead of effective focal length). That's more than twice the maximum "effective focal length" of a Nikon P1000 and four times that of a Nikon P900. I actually captured it for longer than this, but I started into it a little later because when it's just rising it's even farther away and even smaller in apparent size. I couldn't track it past the peak of the pass (directly overhead) because of the alt/az alignment I was using; the azimuth rate needed to keep up skyrockets past the maximum speed of the telescope at the zenith. I may solve that with polar alignment in the future, but the telescope is more susceptible to vibrations in that configuration. Passes that are a little lower at their peak work better for the alt/az configuration.

Last Edited by Astromut on 07/17/2020 01:41 PM

What happens if you have a runny dump/diarrhea?

This will look beautiful on my 4K cell phone display.

FAKE as hell! When will you guys realize this is all filmed in a studio? There is no outer space dude! We all live in a dome like the Truman Show.

I was thinking less atmosphere.

That's true, the seeing would be better, but the light pollution really wouldn't matter.

Wrong. You're a fucking idiot.

Last Edited by Astromut on 07/17/2020 05:52 PM

Nope, I'm not a liar. I wish I could grab you by the neck and force you to see the space station through the eyepiece of my telescope. You are dead fucking wrong.