Brit snaps space man from garden!

A BRITISH space boffin has managed to snap a spacewalking astronaut from his back garden — with a webcam and homemade telescope.

Martin Lewis' amazing photo shows the shuttle Discovery docked to the International Space Station.

The Sun Link
Ok its not that clear a photo,cant really see much but still pretty amazing,must be a first for an amateur photographer!

I thought this was a pretty funny comment left by a user on the page:

Can you imagine if a spaceman took a picture of a man in his garden there would be an uproar.

Is anyone else reporting this..? I don't find the sun to be a very reliable source.

Originally posted by TechVampyre
Is anyone else reporting this..? I don't find the sun to be a very reliable source.

Yes, OP, we're gonna need a better link or this stinks...

reply to post by TechVampyre


yeah i know,the sun has not got a great track record,i will do a search,i cant see them making something like this up though!

Im still searching
I have found another photo of the discovery aproaching the ISS by another amateur astronomer:

Link

I applaud the man's effort, not a bad shot for what has to be a long exposure with a mechanism it appears he made to follow the swift path through the sky the station has. Equally amazing efforts I'm sure we all have seen is the shuttle docking to the ISS crossing the sun.
dailymail.co.uk

Here we go:
Skymania Link

Hope this helps!

Been done before: www.wired.com...
apod.nasa.gov...

But still pretty awesome.

Originally posted by lektrofellon
Here we go:
Skymania Link

Hope this helps!

Much appreciated.! Thank you sir. S&F

I was interested until I saw it was The Sun. DON'T READ THE SUN!

reply to post by scottlpool2003

Are you a scouser,because i heard no scousers read the sun!!!!!!

But Yeah it is a load of w#nk of a newspaper!!!

Geebus that's a big freaking telescope that guy has. And people say size doesn't matter...

Originally posted by jjkenobi
Geebus that's a big freaking telescope that guy has. And people say size doesn't matter...

yes... people lie

Loved the comment

Can you imagine if a spaceman took a picture of a man in his garden there would be an uproar.

Its very cool and all that from the ground this guy can get that resolution of an image of the space-station.
However, positively identifying that blotch on the photo as a "space man", is a wee-bit of stretch.

IMH(f)O anyway.