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Community photo entitled The Orion-Artemis spacecraft, among the stars by Steven Bellavia on 04/08/2026 at Smithfield, VA

The Orion-Artemis spacecraft, among the stars

On 04/08/2026 04:45 am by Steven Bellavia | Website | Smithfield, VA

Using JPL-NASA ephemeris data and scripts written by Shawn Gano, I located the Orion-Artemis II spacecraft within Stellarium and could then image it, similar to how I would image a fast-moving asteroid or comet. It is moving among the stars, 333,800 Km (207,400 miles) from earth
PlateSolve3 indicates the spacecraft is currently around magnitude 16-ish

Celestron C6 SCT
Starizona HyperStar v4
ZWO ASI 533MC camera
SkyWatcher EQ6R-Pro equatorial mount

calibrated, aligned and processed 45 x 120-second images in PixInsight
This is just a single image.