Soyuz Second Stage in Earth Orbit
Taken by Ralf Vandebergh on June 25, 2020 @
The Netherlands
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Very rare telescopic recording of a Soyuz rocket core stage (second stage) in low Earth orbit. This large stage has dimensions of 28 meters by 2.95 meters. In general Soyuz launches the second stage is jettonized to fall back to Earth and not reaches orbit. For the Cosmos 2542 launch on November 25, 2019, the second stage reached orbit and the payload was brought to final orbit with a Volga upper stage. This is a part of the video were you can see the Soyuz core stage passing through the telescope field of view while manually tracking it. Setup: Taken with 10 inch F4,8 Newtonian secondary focus with QHY5 5L-11 camera. Tracking was fully manually using the crosshair method at low magnification on the tracking scope.
Photographer's website:
https://http://www.ralfvandebergh-astrophotography.simpsite.nl/home
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