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                                 2020 June 5

                          Dragon over Central Park
                    Image Credit & Copyright: Stan Honda

   Explanation: Still bathed in sunlight the International Space Station
   (ISS) arced through this Manhattan evening sky on May 30. Moving left
   to right, its bright trail was captured in this composite image with a
   series of 5 second long exposures. Stars left short trails and lights
   were reflected in still waters looking toward the north across the
   Central Park reservoir. Chasing the ISS in low Earth orbit the Crew
   Dragon spacecraft dubbed Endeavour also left a trail through that urban
   night. Seen about 6 hours after its launch the spacecraft's faint trail
   appears above the ISS, shown in the inset just as the two approached
   the bank of clouds at the right. Dragon Endeavour docked successfully
   with the ISS about nineteen hours after reaching orbit.

                      Tomorrow's picture: light-weekend
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