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Amateur telescope captures of Orion en route to the Moon

April 5, 2026r/astrophotography, r/astronomy

In r astronomy and r astrophotography, observers are photographing the Orion capsule during Artemis II transit, sharing stacking details and how faint the target is in raw files at long distance.

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
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