ISS & Dragon CRS-4
Taken by Marián Šabo on September 23, 2014 @ Obyce, Slovakia
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  Camera Used: NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D3100
Exposure Time: 250/10
Aperture: f/3.8
ISO: 800
Date Taken: 2014:09:23 12:09:57
  
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Despite the large clouds I managed to capture at least part of the common crossing station ISS when it is approaching the spacecraft Dragon CRS-4.
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What time did you photograph this? Dragon came 30 minutes before ISS today by dawn (seen in Hungary) Dragon 05:03 CEST, ISS 05:31 CEST. I think it was not the Dragon which you could photograph with ISS at 05:30 CEST today. Dragon came exactly where & when Calskys prediction said. I was only about 220 kms south of your place in Veszprem, Hungary, so the flyby should have been very similar.
Posted by LandyGyebnar 2014-09-23 11:22:52
At night before rendezvous with ISS, Dragon make a series of maneuvers and Calsky prediction calculated with TLEs data, that has already not actual. What i photographed at 5:30 CEST was certainly Dragon, Im sure. Nothing else could it be :-) I think on the contrary, it was not Dragon, What you could observed. It is possible that it was space debris from Dragon (covers of solar panels), which are relatively well visible too (around 3,5 mag).
Posted by Marian Sabo 2014-09-24 09:37:37
Marian, you are right. I checked again my pics of the ISS flyby (with lots of clouds...) and there is a second, very faint object behind ISS. I have not seen that without magnification and extra contrast to the pics, but now I can see. Dragon became too faint to be seen by naked eye as the duo left the most cloudy sky part, but on two pics I have them together. Thank you!
http://kepfeltoltes.hu/140926/iss-dragon-0923_www.kepfeltoltes.hu_.jpg
Posted by LandyGyebnar 2014-09-26 10:38:03
Happy to help.
Posted by Marian Sabo 2014-09-27 04:54:46
 
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