Atlantis pulling Hubble out of Orbit.

[Homerboy]

http://www.neowin.net/news/mai...ng-hubble-out-of-orbit

 

[drum]

Holy shit that is A1 badass.

 

[Ns1]

crazy pic

 

[bonkers325]

that is awesome

 

[ggnl]

those are impressive shots :Q

 

[Arcadio]

I want to get me one of those telescopes..

 

[The Boston Dangler]

take that, andre agassi

 

[drum]

Originally posted by: The Boston Dangler
take that, andre agassi

This florida guy just happened to have the high end Eos Rebel. what now!!!!11 1!?!?! :laugh:

 

[scott916]

:shocked:
Insane!

 

[BW86]

awesome pictures

 

[halik]

wow that is awesome

 

[AstroManLuca]

Whoa, one of the commenters said that the shuttle was only in front of the sun for 0.8 seconds!

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

I wouldn't have thought it possible to get a shot like that without specialized equipment.

 

[effowe]

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello
I wouldn't have thought it possible to get a shot like that without specialized equipment.

Takahashi TOA-130 refractor telescope (focal length 2200mm) and a Baader solar prism

That sounds pretty specialized to me, but I know nothing about telescopes.

 

[mharr7]

amazing......

 

[fleshconsumed]

Yeah, the telescope is 12K alone. Camera another 2K.

 

[Evadman]

Transit duration: 0.8s. Transit bandwidth on Earth: 5.6 km. Altitude: 600 km. Speed: 7 km/s (25000 km/h). Length of Atlantis : 35m, length of Hubble : 13m. extracted from a series of 16 images (4 images/s) started 2s before the predicted time.

Holy cow. What timing. Direct source to pics: http://www.astrosurf.com/legau...antis_hst_transit.html

 

[Kalmah]

I wonder why we never really see any pictures/videos from the actual astronauts working on hubble? Give us a little tour of the view of earth from there..

I guess I can assume that it would just be too dangerous to have to worry about such things. (and too much money on the line to chance doing that)

 

[FelixDeCat]

Paging FBB!

Great pic.

 

[Gunslinger08]

The sun could use some anti-aliasing.

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

Originally posted by: Kalmah
I wonder why we never really see any pictures/videos from the actual astronauts working on hubble? Give us a little tour of the view of earth from there..

I guess I can assume that it would just be too dangerous to have to worry about such things. (and too much money on the line to chance doing that)

There's a whole channel for it, NASA TV. I get it on Dish.

Sometimes it shows loops of old footage, others are direct feed.

"Normal" tv only shows when something happens. Like when the woman let the tool bag float away.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: effowe

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello
I wouldn't have thought it possible to get a shot like that without specialized equipment.

Takahashi TOA-130 refractor telescope (focal length 2200mm) and a Baader solar prism

That sounds pretty specialized to me, but I know nothing about telescopes.

I meant specialized as in above what an astronomy enthusiast might have.

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

Link to NASA tv

 

[nanette1985]

Wow, awesome. Made my day - thanks for posting!

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello

Originally posted by: effowe

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello
I wouldn't have thought it possible to get a shot like that without specialized equipment.

Takahashi TOA-130 refractor telescope (focal length 2200mm) and a Baader solar prism

That sounds pretty specialized to me, but I know nothing about telescopes.

I meant specialized as in above what an astronomy enthusiast might have.

http://www.scopecity.com/detail.cfm?ProductID=5767

Quite an enthusiast 😉