Tiangong 2 and Shenzhou 11
Taken by Dewey Vanderhoff on October 18, 2016 @
Cody , Wyoming USA
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I was able to observe and photograph the Chinese Tiangong-2 mini-space station and Shenzhou 11 manned spacecraft this morning before dawn. The craft made a pass 60 degrees high at a closest tangent distance of 448 km to my location in northwest Wyoming at 6:02 AM-MDT local time . Shenzhou was trailing Tiangong by about 30 seconds. Estimated visual magnitude was 1.2 in a sky full of high humidity, cumulus clouds, a very bright waning gibbous Moon, and predawn airglow to the east. [ Pass info generated by Heavens-Abvoe.com ] The Chinese craft were quite faint but visible to the naked eye. 11 hours earlier I watched an ISS pass in very nearly the same orbital track, and noted the two space stations are roughly 180° apart in their orbits... about as far from one another as they can get in that orbital plane.
Camera was a Nikon D5300 using an old manual 24mm Nikkor prime lens ( eq. focal length = 36mm) . Exposure was 30 secs. at f/4 using ISO 1600 , daylight color balance
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