China's Shenzhou-10 closing in on Tiangong-1

[StephenM]

Hi all,

Despite mostly cloudy skies this morning I managed to catch China's latest manned space flight (Shenzhou-10, carrying a crew of three) nearing the Chinese space station Tiangong-1. Shenzhou-10 was first, followed just over a minute later by Tiangong-1 in a parallel orbit. I stacked 2 exposures to produce this image.

Thanks for looking!

Cheers,
Stephen

[Larryp]

Good catch, Stephen :)

[pluto]

That's great!
Did you get any shots with them both in frame at once? Should have been possible but perhaps not from your location judging by the trees?

I had planned to get this as well but set my alarm wrong...

[gary]

Excellent Stephen!

[seeker372011]

Nice capture!

[deanm]

On a similar note, ISS & ATV-4 are due to dock 09:46 EDT tomorrow (15.6.13).

Currently, ATV is 20 minutes ahead of ISS, but will obviously close in.

Dean

[Draco]

nice .. i saw something shoot by the field of view around 620pm yesterday when I was looking at saturn.. tried to find what it was but it was lost to me..

[von Tom]

Nice catch!!

[StephenM]

Thanks for the comments Laurie, Hugh, Gary, Narayan, Dean, Niv and Tom!

It was about 7/8ths cloud cover at the time, so I didn't manage to get both in the same frame Hugh. That would have been nice, but I think I was lucky to get this image given the conditions.

Cheers,
Stephen

[Matt Wastell]

On ya Stephen - like seeing these!