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A Canadian Telescope Caught a Canadian Astronaut Flying Past the Moon at 4 a.m
Artemis II splashdown is scheduled for 8:07 Eastern, and the Orion capsule is cooking toward Earth fast enough that reentry is expected to produce a significant fireball through the atmosphere. Everything on NASA's tracker is showing green. Nobody wants to jinx it.
On April 8th at 4 a.m., the Alan I. Carswell Observatory at York University pointed its telescope through part of a wall to capture the Orion capsule moving against the background stars on its way home. The capsule is small and dim and was low on the horizon, right at the limit of visibility. They caught it anyway. One pixel…
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