Boston Astronomers Image Space Station and Shuttle From the Ground
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Astronomers at the Clay Center Observatory in Brookline, Mass., used a 0.64-meter Ritchey-Chretien telescope to capture this image of the International Space Station as it passed overhead at an altitude of 350 km. (217 mi.). The tail of the space shuttle Atlantis and its three main engines are...
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