Spacestation MIR, 02.27.2001

Data of recording:
Elevation: 46°
Distance: 360km
Size: 30m = 17,2 arcseconds
Speed: 26.000km/h
Time: 18:24 UTC, 27.02.2001
Location: Hombressen near Kassel
Instrument: Meade LX 200 12"

MIR video-singleframes with size 300% of original frame

MIR video-singleframe after splitting tricolor (RGB), running Maximum Entropy Deconvolution with each frame, combining tricolor to RGB again. Special thanks to Martin Rothe for sending the picture of his MIR-Model !

First : MIR, average of three frames, then same processing as before.
Second : Nearly the same view of the station from a russian spaceshuttle (Source:RSA)