11th April 2001  Click here for ground track

Here are our first images of the ISS - unlike the MIR pictures no processing has been done - these are just frame grabs from the camera. Part of the reason these are much better than the raw MIR pictures seems to be the improved telescope tracking due to the use of a faster PC (Pentium II 300 MHz). Joystick control was much easier with the faster machine and the image more stable, this seems to have eliminated the interlacing effect we saw in the MIR frames.

Like many ISS images these suffer from over exposure and we have been studying options to correct this in future work.

11th April 2001  21:18:20 UTC  Orbit #?????

Range: 500km
Altitude: 400km
Azimuth:232°
Elevation:51°

Image rotated to match NASA comparison image (see bottom of this page) 
11th April 2001  19:43:38 UTC  Orbit #?????

Range: 580km
Altitude: 400km
Azimuth:124°
Elevation:42°

Image rotated to match orientation of NASA image.

 
 

Comparison NASA image from STS98 mission in mid Feb 2001