subject: 2008/12/27 ISS observations:
(Starboard SARJ autotrack and reflected Earth blue)
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Hi,--a series of cold transparent nights enabled imagery of the space station in
this December morning visibility frame.As no favourable seeing was expected
like mostly in these cold east-stream skies,there were a few surprises though.
This is one of the frames I gathered with the first selection,and the EVA work of
the last months STS-126 mission with Endeavour is indirectly visible at the
Starboard side of the station;we see for the first time after months an autotrack
of the Starboard SARJ(the righter solar panel).
On another note,note the obvious Earth blue reflection(especially the Columbus-Kibo lab
configuration seems to reflect heavily according to most frames.
10inch Newtonian/ATK-2C manually tracked)
Best wishes_____________
Ralf Vandebergh
