July 21, 2010

ISS in front of the sun

As a special ICT project the AIR project team of Westfalen-Kolleg in Dortmund/Germany tried successfully to photograph the International Space Station (ISS) in front of the sun.

Such a transit of the ISS takes simply a second and can only be seen from few places. So the mission was to be at the right moment at the right place.

To be successful we used of course "Information and Communication Technologies(ICT)" as we had praticed it in our EU project.

ICT in astronomical practice:
1. To finding the right time and right place we used the Celestial Observer "calsky" in the internet. We found an observation place near the university of Dortmund at Sunday, the 18th of July.
2. At 05:31 pm, our equipment (EQ6 mounting, coronado SolarMax60 telescope, DMK31 video camera and notebook) was prepared, we started recording just in time. Here is the one second video:



3. At least we had to overlay the 32 discrete pictures of the video with an image processing software, to get the above picture with 32 ISSs in front of the sun.

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