On Friday evening there was a mag -1 International Space Station pass and a mag 1.6 Hubble Space Telescope pass that were both visible together in the sky. I had hoped to be able to stack lots of exposures to get the path of both objects near Orion, but clouds made that difficult. Still I managed to stack some images to get the two together, and a plane flew through the field as well. A busy patch of sky!
It passed straight overhead on Friday evening Jason, and flared to perhaps -1 when near the zenith. In fact that flare was the brightest I've seen the HST. Unfortunately I didn't have the camera on it at the time.
A well planned and executed project, a real credit to you and great example to others of the sort of things that can be achieved with a DSLR.
Regards
Trevor
Thanks very much Trevor! It's rare to get 2 satellites of interest in the same patch of sky at the same time, so it was good to capture it. Would have been even better if there had been a bright Iridium flare as well!
