Shadow of Endeavour

Endeavour is safely back on Earth. But while it was docked to the International Space Station, it cast a long, long shadow… which you can see in this astonishing picture:

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Cool, isn’t it? I know, it’s small — you can see it more clearly in the full-res picture — but here’s a close-up:

You can now see the ISS much better (along with a sunspot cluster — note that spot on the right is roughly the size of the Earth!); Endeavour is the long fuzzy bump on the top of the horizontal bar going between the two sets of solar panels.

This picture was taken by Spanish photographer Dani Caxete, amazingly using just a 12.5 cm (5 inch) telescope. He has a gorgeous series of photos on Flickr which is well worth checking out, including this very cool one showing a series of video frames of the ISS crossing the Moon, and a very moody shot of the ISS and Sun with some clouds adding a sense of ...

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