SIGHTINGS: On Saturday, Feb. 8th, just as space shuttle Atlantis was preparing to dock to the International Space Station, the pair of spacecraft flew over Poland where Grzegorz Tuszyński was waiting with his 10-inch telescope to take this picture:
Hours later, Atlantis docked and delivered a new scienc laboratory to the ISS. The 23,000-lb Columbus module is being installed by spacewalking astronauts today: full story. Ongoing contruction of the ISS is making the station bigger and more luminous than ever. It's easy to see with the unaided eye, especially when sunlight glinting from solar panels makes the station flare brighter than Venus. And, as shown above, it is a wonderful target for backyard telescopes. Sky watchers in Europe and North America, ready your optics for a series of favorable flybys in the evenings ahead: flyby alerts.
转载自www.SpaceWeather.com
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