Tiangong Space Station / Shenzhou-13
Taken by Philip Smith on December 12, 2021 @
Manorville, NY USA
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Date Taken: 2021:12:15 14:41:36
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This week China's new Tiangong Space Station is making a series of visible flybys over the USA, some as bright as 1st magnitude. On Dec. 12th, such a flyby occurred over Manorville, NY, where I live, and imaged the Tiangong Space Station and Shenzhou-13 docked to it. My imaging configuration was an Edge HD 14′′ telescope with an Astrodon Gen 2 Sloan r2 1.25" on a ZWO ASI174MM (mono) camera and Baader Planetarium Carl Zeiss 1-1/4" 2x Barlow Lens and 1 extender. "I photographed the space station just before the apex of the flyby. "It was 86° above my horizon and almost directly overhead." My image clearly shows the cylindrical backbone of the station, its rectangular solar arrays, and a hint of the Shenzhou-13 spacecraft docked to it. Not shown are 3 astronauts currently onboard. Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping, and Ye Guangfu are almost halfway through a six month mission, practicing spacewalks and building the station. They will return to Earth onboard the Shenzhou-13 in the spring of 2022. I added the China Space Station Shenzhou-13 Patch. I made it black and white for this image. Kind Regards To All 🙂
Photographer's website:
https://www.facebook.com/philip.smith.5686
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