Tumbling Space Debris
Taken by Ralf Vandebergh on June 24, 2014 @
the Netherlands
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We see the upper stage of a Soyuz-U rocket that launched Egyptsat 2 into space on April 16. The rocket is heavily tumbling, in binoculars showing a flashing period of around 1 flash per second. This video shows the actual motion of the rocket in high-resolution. Distance was 728 km, altitude above the ground 688 km. Resolution and clearness is obvious for this distance.
Movie made of part of imaging sequence(uninterrupted)that was aquired by manual alignment on crosshairs. 10 inch Newtonian and HR monochromatic camera.
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