Obscured by Clouds. The rough and ready blog of a cloud benighted biologist and amateur astronomer. Astroblog will cover my interests in astronomy, biology and Life, the Universe and Everything.
Thursday, September 13, 2012
The International Space Station Shoots Past Saturn and Mars, 11 September 2012
The International Space Station shoots between the Saturn and Mars (closest to Saturn though), then zooms through alpha and Beta Centauri, the pointers to the Southern Cross below' The sequence was taken at 7:02 pm ACST on 11 September 2012 from Adelaide. Ten x 6 second exposures at 400 ASA taken with canon IXUS (click to embiggen). The bight line bottom left is a plane.
My animation of all 10 images is below (images stacked and converted to AVI with ImageJ.