http://www.spaceweather.com/: "After a day of playing cat and mouse, Atlantis has finally docked with the International Space Station," says Frank Ryan Jr. who photographed the pair flying over Shannon, Ireland, last night:
Rivaling Venus in brightness, Atlantis and the ISS are easy to see through backyard telescopes. (The trick is knowing when to look.) Ryan captured his image using a 5-inch Meade ETX-125 telescope and a digital webcam. "I stacked 30 good frames and processed them in Registax. The results really surprised me!"
more images: from Ralf Vandebergh of the Netherlands; from David Campbell of Didcot, Oxfordshire, UK; from Rudolf Dobesberger of Neuzeug Austria
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