Day 090, orbit 1397
Astronaut Sophie Adenot
Date: 2026-05-09
Taken from Bortle 6 Location
Equipment and Imaging Details:
Processed in PIPP and AstroSurface (stacked, increased gain, and sharpening)
Full resolution and animated GIF for all frames that were captured (and detected in PIPP): https://app.astrobin.com/i/14fqll
Been trying for ages to spot it for weeks but it has been too cloudy where I am from in England but for two days straight I managed to catch it! So cool
I just got an amazing view of the ISS flying over the UK - in the same field of view as Venus and Jupiter, on a beautiful, clear, late spring night…
… and then, when it was directly overhead, ANOTHER object travelling very “close” - in the same direction - at different speed. So similar a trajectory that they appeared “alongside”.
What was that?
This was 22:22hrs BST, Weds May 13 - I think that’s an hour or two before Cargo Dragon was due to launch.
I’m so curious what I saw “close” to ISS. One of them was brighter than the other.
How can I find historical flight paths at that time?
This pic was taken on my phone sorry for bad quality :/
My apologies for the weird input of the video it seems like I must have run into a problem caused by Reddit or my video editor.