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Old 13-06-2013, 08:17 PM
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China's Shenzhou-10 closing in on Tiangong-1

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.

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Stephen
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Old 13-06-2013, 08:37 PM
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Good catch, Stephen
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Old 13-06-2013, 09:27 PM
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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...
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Old 13-06-2013, 10:12 PM
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Excellent Stephen!
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Old 13-06-2013, 10:32 PM
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Nice capture!
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Old 14-06-2013, 08:49 AM
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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.

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Old 14-06-2013, 10:51 AM
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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..
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Old 14-06-2013, 06:27 PM
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Nice catch!!
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Old 14-06-2013, 07:21 PM
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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.

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Old 15-06-2013, 07:48 PM
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On ya Stephen - like seeing these!
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