Observation by John Arnold: ISS orientation change

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John Arnold

Observer

John Arnold

Observed

2025 Jul 14 - 23:23

Uploaded

2025 Jul 15 - 09:52

Objects

Spacecraft

Equipment

Skywatcher 150 Maksutov with 3x barlow and Pentax K70 DSLR

Exposure

exp. time 1 msec, camera in video mode shooting at 30p fps. Each image is stack of around 15 consecutive video frames

Location

Suburban North Leeds

Target name

International Space Station

Title

ISS orientation change

About this image

Seen from Leeds, as it travels West to East across the sky, the ISS is moving to the left. The ISS usually travels with the American section pointing forward, but recently this was reversed, so that the Russian modules were facing forward. This may be related to the docking last week of a Progress cargo craft. Following departure of the Axiom 4 Dragon, the ISS was seen last night to have reverted to its usual orientation.

Files associated with this observation

ISS seen 2 days apart.jpg (20.5 kB)

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