Amateur ISS spotting, Amazing details visible thru backyard scopes now |
Amateur ISS spotting, Amazing details visible thru backyard scopes now |
Mar 22 2009, 12:25 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Been watching the ISS go over the past couple of nights and it's now fantastically bright. Many amateur astronomers are now training their 'scopes on the ISS and photographing it, achieving stunning results like this...
http://spaceweather.com/submissions/large_..._1237676263.jpg Interesting to see how golden and shiny the new panels are in those images... have the others been "dulled" by exposure to the environment of space, or is there some other reason..? -------------------- |
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Mar 22 2009, 05:52 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1452 Joined: 26-July 08 Member No.: 4270 |
It's definitely just reflection angle that makes the solar arrays a different colour. Note that colour differences are observed between the 'forward' and 'aft' section of the solar array wings, however for a single solar array wing, both the front and back section has been in space the same length of time.
The colouration of the arrays in the linked images is thus inconsistent of being affected by the length of time they were in space. -------------------- -- Hungry4info (Sirius_Alpha)
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