No luck on ISS SSTV, but NOAA 17 looks nice

Published on 2009-08-03 by Mark VandeWettering

I tried to record the pass of the ISS as it came over, but I heard nary a peep (or beep) from it as it went over. Annoyed, I did a quick search, and found that the NOAA 17 satellite was just coming up. I retuned and hand tracked that, yielding the following rather nice image:

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