Sic Itur Ad Astra – Thus The Way To The Stars : 139 years of astronomy
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A video put together by our Supernova search team of the recent close pass by Near-Earth Asteroid 2012 DA14. The original video with information is on the Datascope wiki here.Continue Reading »
This is a short video of the ISS pass detailed here: http://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx?lat=53.41634&lng=-2.940475&loc=Liverpool&alt=10&tz=GMT&satid=25544&mjd=56340.7939304051&type=V It was taken using an iPhone 4S without any modification or additional equipment. No zoom (digital or otherwise) was used. The video isn’t the best quality, for the reasons above and because it was very much a last-minute decision to record it. That […]Continue Reading »
