On Friday at Cape Canaveral, SpaceX launched a Dragon spacecraft on a cargo delivery mission to the International Space Station. With a modest amateur telescope, astrophotographer Thierry Legault in Paris imaged the shape of the Dragon, including its two solar panels, as it passed over Paris:
(Check out Legault’s other amazing images of spacecraft in orbit. )
Ralf Vandbergh in Belgium could also make out the shape of the Falcon 9 second stage: Dragonlaunch_20140418.jpg (1076×601)
Find more about spacecraft watching in the HobbySpace Satellite Observing section.