Subj : Daily APOD Report
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From : Alan Ianson
Date : Sat Jul 09 2022 00:26:40

                        Astronomy Picture of the Day

    Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our
      fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation
                    written by a professional astronomer.

                                 2022 July 9

                             Saturn and the ISS
                     Image Credit & Copyright: Tom Glenn

   Explanation: Soaring high in skies around planet Earth, bright planet
   Saturn was a star of June's morning planet parade. But very briefly on
   June 24 it posed with a bright object in low Earth orbit, the
   International Space Station. On that date from a school parking lot in
   Temecula, California the ringed-planet and International Space Station
   were both caught in this single high-speed video frame. Though Saturn
   was shining at +0.5 stellar magnitude the space station was an even
   brighter -3 on the magnitude scale. That difference in brightness is
   faithfully represented in the video capture frame. In the challenging
   image, the orbiting ISS was at a range of 602 kilometers. Saturn was
   about 1.4 billion kilometers from the school parking lot.

                 Tomorrow's picture: gaze into the cat's eye
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