Where is the Atlantis and the Hubble??
Posted by Carlos in Cosas, tags: Curiosities, ScienceThat’s a pretty impressive photo taken from:
http://www.astrosurf.com/legault/atlantis_hst_transit.html
No more comments, just beautiful! (You may need to see the photo in a bigger size, so go to the original website)
Only image ever taken of a transit of a space shuttle (Atlantis) and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) in front of the Sun, during the last repair mission of Hubble, obtained from Florida at 100 km south of the Kennedy Space Center on May 13th 2009 12:17 local time, several minutes before grapple of Hubble by Atlantis.
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.
Transit forecast (place, time…) calculated by www.calsky.com.Takahashi TOA-130 refractor (diameter 130mm, final focal 2200mm), Baader solar prism and Canon 5D mark II. Exposure of 1/8000s at 100 ISO, extracted from a series of 16 images (4 images/s) started 2s before the predicted time.





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