In r/astrophotography and r/nasa, hobbyists share techniques for imaging the Orion capsule at hundreds of thousands of kilometers, comparing stacks, timelapses, and ephemeris driven tracking workflows.
Today I had fun capturing the Orion capsule, traveling toward the Moon, at a distance of 314,500 km from Earth while I was taking the photos.
Compared to yesterday it has dimmed by two magnitudes, now it’s around +15 and was barely visible in the RAW files.
I stacked 32 shots of 30 seconds each: the capsule appears as a dashed line
Today I had fun capturing the Orion capsule, traveling toward the Moon, at a distance of 314,500 km from Earth
Using the ephemeris data published around 12hrs after launch, run through a script in Stellarium
That five-second GIF is a timelapse of about 58 minutes of observations with my 8" diameter reflector telescope, as the Orion capsule moves against the background stars.
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