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Orion capsule tracked by amateur telescope during Artemis II transit

April 5, 2026r/astrophotography

In r_astrophotography, a viral capture tracks the Orion capsule as a faint dashed trail, with follow up comments about stacking settings and why the track shape looks odd, showing how the community documents Artemis in real time.

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.
I stacked 32 shots of 30 seconds each: the capsule appears as a dashed line
Compared to yesterday it has dimmed by two magnitudes, now it’s around +15 and was barely visible in the RAW files.
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