Astronomy Picture of the Day

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                                 2020 June 5
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                          Dragon over Central Park
                 Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]Stan Honda

   Explanation: [5]Still bathed in sunlight the International Space
   Station (ISS) arced through this Manhattan evening sky on May 30.
   Moving left to right, its bright trail was captured in this composite
   image with a series of 5 second long exposures. Stars left short trails
   and lights were reflected in still waters looking toward the north
   across the Central Park reservoir. [6]Chasing the ISS in low Earth
   orbit the Crew Dragon spacecraft dubbed Endeavour also left a trail
   through that urban night. Seen about 6 hours after its launch the
   spacecraft's faint trail appears above the ISS, shown in the inset just
   as the two approached the bank of clouds at the right. [7]Dragon
   Endeavour docked successfully with the ISS about nineteen hours after
   reaching orbit.

                      Tomorrow's picture: light-weekend
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