subject: 2010/06/17_Soyuz TMA-19 and its Rocket_color version Finally a version with little increased color saturation. http://tinyurl.com/36ahpnx Ralf Vandebergh Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 2:08 PM Subject: 2010/06/17_Soyuz TMA-19 and its Rocket subject: 2010/06/17_Soyuz TMA-19 and its Rocket The Soyuz TMA-19, just launched on Tuesday, captured with the third stage of its Rocket, the last separated stage before the Soyuz reached orbit. The Rocket passed about 15 minutes before the manned Soyuz, in a lower orbit, causing a lower altitude above the horizon. Apparant speed of the Soyuz and especially the Rocket was much higher then the ISS, due to the lower orbit, and therefore a challenge for fully manually tracking as I did. I never was able to capture a stage of the Soyuz Rocket earlier, and I'm satisfied, you can clearly make out the shape of the Rocket stage. Those Soyuz rockets are never long visible cause they enter the Earth Atmosphere pretty fast. The Soyuz either is never long visible as it docks quickly to the ISS within 2 days after launch. Imaging: 10inch Newtonian, manually tracked. Ralf Vandebergh http://ralfvandebergh.startje.be/vieuw.php?qid=328303 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20100619/c3e95ae9/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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