KIAD- 17 April 2012-Discovery Arrives

[NickPeterman]

What. A. Morning. It was a great pleasure to finally meet Manny and Cary, and to meet up with William again. We got lucky with light on the first pass, that is for sure. I got the shot that I had worked a 2nd job to buy a new camera for, and all is well.


What a day, what a day. I honestly, don't have much to say for once.


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[Roush6NY]

Sweeeet !!! Great shots, Nick !

[NickPeterman]

Thank you, Kaz. It was a truly amazing sight!

[moose135]

Well done, Nick! Very nice work!

[NickPeterman]

The Little Buddy

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[NickPeterman]

And Manny and my prizes for getting out there way early!

Taken before sunrise

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Golden light at dawn

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[nexpos]

Wow amazing photos!!!

[727C47]

beautiful

[nssd70]

Fantastic photos!

Doug

[NickPeterman]

Thank you guys! It was a really awesome experience, one you guys will experience soon!

[Greg_NY]

Awesome shots, Nick, well done!

Isaac

[threeholerglory]

hopefully you can send some of that light up our way! tremendous shots and something I can only hope to pull off on Monday...I'd LOVE to have some of those hanging on my wall!!!!

[wunaladreamin]

I am supremely jealous!!!

[gonzalu]

Nick. Nice meeting you finally. Terrific photos you captured. I decided to join Cary for spotting at BWI 'til sunset..... So I am still on the road back to NY. Pictures to come although Nick covered the three passes well!

What an amazing experience. I never imagined it would be as emotional as it was!

[megatop412]

Today was insane and I loved it, the waiting was rewarded with these incredible sights.

Great hanging out with you guys and Nick you nailed those passes

[NickPeterman]

Thank you all so much!

Manny, I hope BWI treated you well :wink:

[gonzalu]

Shot this through the viewfinder of my camera with the iPhone

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[NickPeterman]

The final landing for Discovery

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[SmAlbany]

Shot this through the viewfinder of my camera with the iPhone


Cool. I never would have thought to do that.

I assume that you did that so that you could more easily do a mobile upload?

Dan

[moose135]

Great coverage, guys! It's got me really stoked about next week! Hope we get some good weather.

[steve1840]

Great coverage Nick! I hope I am able to get shots like that up here next week!

[gonzalu]

Cool. I never would have thought to do that.

I assume that you did that so that you could more easily do a mobile upload?

Dan

Dan, easily? ha! You mean [at all]. I was 250 miles from my computer and CF card readers :-( So yeah, I wanted to tweet something so it was either LCD shot 9which looks horrible) or this which is less horrible but bad nonetheless :tongue:

I think if I did not have a rubber eye-cup I could have gotten closer and more detail. It is used in Astrophotography a lot (eyepiece projection) but you need to be as close to the projection plane as possible and with my iPhone protective case and the rubber eye-cup, this is the best I could do. Oh, and Cary had to touch the screen to focus and adjust exposure lol.

[Cary]

Dan, easily? ha! You mean [at all]. I was 250 miles from my computer and CF card readers :-( So yeah, I wanted to tweet something so it was either LCD shot 9which looks horrible) or this which is less horrible but bad nonetheless :tongue:

I think if I did not have a rubber eye-cup I could have gotten closer and more detail. It is used in Astrophotography a lot (eyepiece projection) but you need to be as close to the projection plane as possible and with my iPhone protective case and the rubber eye-cup, this is the best I could do. Oh, and Cary had to touch the screen to focus and adjust exposure lol.

I'm sorry I gave the picture a "slight yellow cast" when I touched the screen, Manny :frown:

[NickPeterman]

Thanks, Steve!

look on the bright side, your guys' Shuttle will be cleaner than this, so you get pristine Shuttle and SCA :)