Animation of the ISS Space Station Construction

Post by **Airconvent** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 9:14 pm

Nice animation of the ISS Construction.

http://i.usatoday.net/tech/graphics/iss ... /flash.htm

Post by **acc** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 9:24 pm

Nice link, thanks for sharing. Think its time to regularly check heavens-above.com for visible passes of the ISS again.

Tachyon · Post by **Tachyon** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 10:24 pm

Yeah.. never knew how the components fit together. Now I have a better idea!

All we need now is some aliens to lurk around the ISS... heh...

Anyway, it's still a long way to Babylon 5.

Siren · Post by **Siren** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 12:02 am

It looks very complex huh. :S

Sam Lee · Post by **Sam Lee** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:02 am

Haha, very soon it'll be DS9, where they have the docking rings for alien visitors.

starfinder · Post by **starfinder** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:01 pm

Hi Airconvent, that's a very good animation! Thanks for posting the link. We can really appreciate how long it took to gradually build it and how complex it is.

Hi Acc, about 2 weeks ago I entered the ISS' orbital elements into my LX90 and attached a dSLR to it to do prime focus imaging. However, when the time of the ISS' pass over the Singapore region came, clouds decided to deliberately roll in to annoy me. Hence I could not 'fine' track it properly. By the time I caught up with the ISS, it was going too fast. Hence I only got a few blurry images. Arghh....

I think anyone who has not seen the ISS fly over the sky ought to try. It's quite a sight to behold. Can check the dates and times of passes on the Heavens-above website here:
http://www.heavens-above.com/main.aspx? ... 1&TZ=MALST

Post by **Airconvent** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 10:49 pm

I saw it only once in Singapore during the obs phase of Astronomy 2008. The object moved very quickly and was eventually confirmed to be the ISS... [smilie=admire.gif]

btw, heavens-above used to be able to sync on avantgo and its was convenient to check it on my pda as I sync it daily but the service has since been discontinued...probably because avantgo starting charging companies that use their service.