International Space Station captured next to the Moon in an amazing image taken with a normal SLR camera

January 6th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

By
Ted Thornhill

Last updated at 3:35 PM on 6th January 2012

The International Space Station was captured in an incredible image as the Moon loomed behind it.

Despite being 240 miles above, you don’t need specialist equipment to see the Station. In fact, this picture was taken two days ago by a Nasa photographer using an ordinary digital SLR camera – a Nikon D3S – as it passed above Houston.

In the right conditions, the orbiting lab can even be seen with the naked eye.

Out of this world: The International Space Station can be seen as a small object in lower right of this image

FOR THE CAMERA BUFFS, THE SNAPPER’S SET-UP

The Nikon D3S

Nikon D3S (above), 600mm lens and 2x converter,
Heavy Duty Bogen Tripod with sandbag and a trigger cable to minimize
camera shake.

The camera settings were as follows: 1/1600 @ f/8, ISO
2500 on High Continuous Burst.

A pair of binoculars or a home telescope will reveal the structural shape of the craft.

Of course, the photographer did have a few extra bits of kit to help with the clarity, such as a 600mm lens, but nevertheless, it’s all equipment that can be ordered on the internet or bought at a camera shop.

The picture, meanwhile, is very deceptive because the Moon is actually well over 200,000 miles beyond the Station, but they look here as if they might collide.

The photographer, Lauren Harnett, told MailOnline that she was lucky to see the Station.
She said: ‘It’s amazing the amount of interest it has sparked, especially when it almost didn’t happen due to an overcast sky.’

The construction of the Space Station began in 1998, and Nasa describe it as ‘the most complex scientific and technological endeavour ever undertaken’.

It is a test bed for future technologies and a research laboratory for new, advanced industrial materials, communications technology and medical research.

Nasa adds that the Space Station is ‘vital to human exploration’.

It says: ‘It’s where we’re learning how to combat the physiological effects of being in space for long periods.’

The statistics associated with the Station are mightily impressive.

It has more than 33,000 cubic feet (935 cubic metres) of habitable space – almost equal to the room inside one and a half Boeing 747 jetliners – weighs 925,000 pounds (419,600 kilograms) and measures 361 feet (110.03 metres) end to end, which is equivalent to a U.S. football field, including the end zones.

High flier: The Space Station orbits at 240 miles above the Earth

The station’s solar panels exceed the wingspan of a Boeing 777 and harness enough energy from the sun to provide electrical power to all station components and scientific experiments.

And it’s travelling at a whopping 17,500mph.

Five space agencies run it and once
completed the research outpost will include contributions from the U.S.,
UK, Canada, Japan, Russia, Brazil, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany,
Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.

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If you call a £3,500.00 camera “an ordinary digital SLR camera”…then it’s correct!

– Simmy, Surrey, 06/1/2012 17:54

This is another plot to make us think the ISS went to the moon. Do you think I’m mad NASA Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha h a

– malwood9, thirsk,uk, 06/1/2012 17:43

Now i’m not the smartest man on the planet but the above pictures seem to have a major flaw… the photo of the moon and the “spacestation” is not the same spacestation in the enlarged image

– Freeman, London, 06/1/2012 17:16

“The picture, meanwhile, is very deceptive because the Moon is actually well over 200,000 miles beyond the Station, but they look here as if they might collide.”
Of course they won’t collide!- and if they did it would be the first time man has stepped on the moon. The fact that from the day JFK announced a moon landing programme, to the first “moon landing” was 7 years. Rather strange that there were 5 moon landings from the first to the last, but none since 1972.
load of rubbish!
ps. Bring on the red flags 🙂

– Simon Burnett, Aberdeen, Scotland, 06/1/2012 16:51

I know! Imagine someone walking into a camera shop, showing this article and saying “I want the same set-up to photograph the Moon,” without realising the overall cost?!
– MB, Manchester, 6/1/2012 12:19==== See my post @ 11:51. I printed my first digital Moon shots by taking my XD Card into Boots in Billericay High Street and using their `Self Service` printer. The Lady behind me noticed the pictures and within seconds they were the talk of the shop. I would say they were the equal to Lauren Harnett`s picture and those that saw them found it hard to believe that I took them from my own back garden about a mile from the shop. If you look on the web (try amazon or warehouse express) and you will find the camera “Olympus 590UZ” for about £300. It is just an incredible bit of kit for the money; and that is from somebody who has a Hassleblad 500C – [the camera taken to the Moon] in my cupboard. Never used now – you can`t get the films and to convert to digital? About £7,500 plus!

– Roy, Billericay, 06/1/2012 16:45

Its not NEXT to the moon its in front of it by about 23,000 miles. – tom crews, London ,Paris, New York and Milan, 6/1/2012 10:55___
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Check your figures, Tom. I think you left a zero off!!

– Bill, Basingstoke, 06/1/2012 15:57

If you start using Heaven’s Above web site (Google it) make sure you feedback your location and it will go on their database. Make sure you input the correct Easterly or Westerly longditude. Lots of people appear to be afloat in the Pacific or stranded in Siberia.

– Alistair Hillier Manser, Sandbanks UK, 06/1/2012 15:52

spaceflight. nasa. gov / realdata / sightings /

– Tom, York, 06/1/2012 15:00

Its not NEXT to the moon its in front of it by about 23,000 miles.
– tom crews, London ,Paris, New York and Milan, 6/1/2012 10:55__________23,000 miles? Are you sure about that?

– Andy, Crewe, 06/1/2012 14:59

the Camera , the best built invention in the World .

– Moonraker, Earth, 06/1/2012 14:36

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