{"id":7429,"date":"2014-04-19T02:22:24","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T02:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7429"},"modified":"2014-04-19T02:22:24","modified_gmt":"2014-04-19T02:22:24","slug":"spacex-dragon-and-falcon-9-stage-seen-with-telescope-as-they-passed-over-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7429","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Dragon and Falcon 9 stage seen with telescope as they passed over Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday\u00a0at Cape Canaveral, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacex.com\" target=\"_blank\">SpaceX<\/a> launched a\u00a0Dragon spacecraft on a cargo delivery mission to the International Space Station. \u00a0With a modest amateur telescope, astrophotographer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astrophoto.fr\/\" target=\"_d\">Thierry Legault<\/a> in Paris imaged\u00a0the shape\u00a0of the\u00a0Dragon, including its two solar panels, as it passed over Paris:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pdS8isz_Ujw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Check out\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/legault.perso.sfr.fr\/satellites.html\" target=\"_blank\">Legault&#8217;s other amazing images<\/a> of spacecraft in orbit. )<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ralf.vandebergh.startje.be\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ralf Vandberg<\/a>h in Belgium could also make out the shape of the Falcon 9 second stage:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/s21.postimg.org\/a8wptfr13\/Dragonlaunch_20140418.jpg\" target=\"_d\">Dragonlaunch_20140418.jpg (1076\u00d7601)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find more about spacecraft watching\u00a0in the <a class=\"linkLocal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hobbyspace.com\/SatWatching\/index.html\">HobbySpace Satellite Observing section<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday\u00a0at Cape Canaveral, SpaceX launched a\u00a0Dragon spacecraft on a cargo delivery mission to the International Space Station. \u00a0With a modest amateur telescope, astrophotographer Thierry Legault in Paris imaged\u00a0the shape\u00a0of the\u00a0Dragon, including its two solar panels, as it passed over Paris: (Check out\u00a0Legault&#8217;s other amazing images of spacecraft in orbit. ) Ralf Vandbergh in Belgium &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7429\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SpaceX Dragon and Falcon 9 stage seen with telescope as they passed over Europe<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,36,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-multiple-media","category-satellite-watching"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1VP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8051,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8051","url_meta":{"origin":7429,"position":0},"title":"Falcon 9 upper stage in orbit imaged from the ground","author":"TopSpacer","date":"June 6, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Ace astrophotographer\u00a0Ralf Vandebergh\u00a0captured images of the SpaceX\u00a0Falcon 9\u00a0upper stage as it passed over Belgium last April using a modest sized telescope. 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