Observation by Chris Hooker: ISS and Crew Dragon, 11th July

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Chris Hooker

Observer

Chris Hooker

Observed

2020 Jul 11 - 02:15

Uploaded

2020 Jul 11 - 13:45

Objects

Spacecraft

Equipment

254 mm Newtonian
5x Powermate
ZWO ASI174MM camera
Baader IR-cut filter

Exposure

0.6 msec @ F/24

Location

Didcot, Oxfordshire

Target name

International Space Station

Title

ISS and Crew Dragon, 11th July

About this image

The ISS imaged during an overhead pass, in poor seeing conditions. While focusing with the Bahtinov mask, I could see the middle line oscillating up and down between the two angled lines, indicating that the focus was changing due to the seeing. A few groups of frames were sharp enough to give a reasonable image: this is a stack of 30 frames from near the middle of the pass.

The bright heat-rejection panels are mostly in shadow here: the left-hand group is shadowed by the main body of the station, and the shadow of one of the solar arrays is falling on the right-hand group. The SpaceX Crew Dragon module is the elongated bright object docked at the upper end of the main station body.

Files associated with this observation

ISS 11 Jul 20 4598 2a.png (369.8 kB)

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