An Amateur Astronomer’s View of the Space Shuttle Discovery Cozying Up to the ISS

guide his 9″ telescope by deal , amateurish astronomer Rob Bullen lose it this extraordinary shot of theSpace ShuttleDiscovery approach the International Space Station over Gloucestershie , England last Saturday . Here ’s whathe had to say :

After a very nebulose day the sky clear to allow a view of this sensational pass of the ISS and Discovery . I could not believe the timing was so fortuitous to show the shuttle closing in on the place . I captured this , what I hazard could potentially be , a once in a lifetime prototype of these two spaceships move around as separate foxiness using Canon EOS 40D using ocular projection through a hand lead 8.5 inch Newton .

A rightfully incredible coup d’oeil of some of our most breathless technological work fascinate with just a mates thousand bucks of paraphernalia . [ Space WeatherviaBad Astronomy , figure : Rob Bullen ]

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