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Old 18-05-2011, 08:01 PM
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Thumbs up STS-134 (Endeavour) chasing the ISS!

Hi all,

I've always wanted to see a double pass of the shuttle and space station together, and I had to wait until the penultimate shuttle flight to see it - but it was worth the wait! An absolutely spectacular sight at about 6:13pm today, as the two spacecraft flew over separated by less than one degree. And the clouds only cleared about 5 minutes before they passed!

I was also lucky enough to have set up the camera on the tripod, and took 3x10 second exposures which I've stacked using Startrails. I hope you like the result! I'm fairly stoked to have finally captured it .

Cheers,
Stephen
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