I Photographed the ISS Passing by Planet Venus Yesterday…
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I Photographed the ISS Passing by Planet Venus Yesterday in Broad Daylight.
It is with great satisfaction that I present only the second ever photograph in recorded history resolving the ISS and Venus together — the first being my NASA APOD-winning image in April of last year. This new photo will be titled “Worlds Apart”.
Planned and captured yesterday evening from a park in Edmonds, Washington at 6:38:05 PM PDT (a precise location and time that I calculated these objects would align), the result shows a detailed International Space Station passing within just fractions of a degree of the 62% illuminated planet Venus in the daytime sky.
Because they’re separated by hundreds of millions of kilometers, the size difference is canceled out, giving the station and planet very similar apparent sizes. In reality, one is the size of a football stadium, while the other, the size of Earth.
Equipment: C9.25, ZWO ASI662MC, UV/IR cut filter.
Processing: ASICapture, AutoStakkert, Registax6, GIMP, Lightroom.
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It is with great satisfaction that I present only the second ever photograph in recorded history resolving the ISS and Venus together — the first being my NASA APOD-winning image in April of last year. This new photo will be titled “Worlds Apart”.
Planned and captured yesterday evening from a park in Edmonds, Washington at 6:38:05 PM PDT (a precise location and time that I calculated these objects would align), the result shows a detailed International Space Station passing within just fractions of a degree of the 62% illuminated planet Venus in the daytime sky.
Because they’re separated by hundreds of millions of kilometers, the size difference is canceled out, giving the station and planet very similar apparent sizes. In reality, one is the size of a football stadium, while the other, the size of Earth.
Equipment: C9.25, ZWO ASI662MC, UV/IR cut filter.
Processing: ASICapture, AutoStakkert, Registax6, GIMP, Lightroom.
#space
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