Astronomy Picture of the Day

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                                 2022 July 9
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                             Saturn and the ISS
                  Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]Tom Glenn

   Explanation: Soaring high in skies around planet Earth, bright planet
   Saturn was a star of [5]June's morning planet parade. But very briefly
   on June 24 it posed with a bright object in low Earth orbit, the
   International Space Station. On that date from a school parking lot in
   Temecula, California the ringed-planet and [6]International Space
   Station were both caught in this single [7]high-speed video frame.
   Though Saturn was shining at +0.5 stellar magnitude the space station
   was an even brighter -3 [8]on the magnitude scale. That difference in
   brightness is faithfully represented in the video capture frame. [9]In
   the challenging image, the orbiting ISS was at a range of 602
   kilometers. Saturn was about 1.4 billion kilometers from the school
   parking lot.

                 Tomorrow's picture: gaze into the cat's eye
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