ISS / Progress Poor Seeing
Taken by Ralf Vandebergh on April 3, 2019 @
the Netherlands
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Did some first ISS imaging tests after almost 4 years on Monday in very poor seeing conditions. Airy discs of stars were totally washed out. This is excellent for practical tests because we encounter poor seeing in most of the occasions. So I'm actually pretty satisfied with the result, considering the circumstances, showing still the Progress MS-10 at the Zvezda aft end. A bit of a mystery is the clearly visible Pirs docking module. As far as I know there should be no spacecraft docked at this port right now. The Progress MS-09 leaved this port on January 25 already. The Soyuz MS-12 is docked at the nadir side but at Rassvet. This is on the other side of the Zarya module, not at this particular spot. The Soyuz MS-11 is docked on the Zenit site so not visible at this spot as well. However, this is the spot were the upcoming Progress MS-11 - which is planned to launch tomorrow - is planned to dock.
Image taken with 10 inch Newtonian and ALccd 5L-11 mono CMOS camera. Fully manually crosshair-tracked.
Photographer's website:
http://www.ralfvandebergh-astrophotography.simpsite.nl/home
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