Saturday, 26 September 2009

THREE SATELLITES IN THREE MINUTES

THREE SATELLITES IN THREE MINUTES: Last night, Mark Staples stood beneath a Spanish moss-draped oak tree on the shore of Little Lake Santa Fe in central Florida. He tilted his camera up to shoot the Moon when, with no warning, a satellite flashed through the branches. "It was a lucky shot," he says, but that was just the beginning:



A minute later, the Hubble Space Telescope glided by. "I used the moss to block the Moon so that I could photograph the HST

I turned around and saw the International Space Station just clearing the trees over the city lights of nearby Starke (image). In all, I caught three satellites in three minutes!"


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