Great view of ATV-4 last night captured by Marco Langbroek. Great work!

ATV-4 14/15 June 2013 Credit: M. Langbroek

ATV-4 14/15 June 2013 Credit: M. Langbroek

Marco writes:

Attached is a photograph I shot this night at about 00:32 CEST (22:32 UT).

It shows ATV-4 and the ISS in one image – ATV-4 at right, ISS at left. A third object, the Russian satellite Kosmos 1315 launched in 1981, can be seen too. This is a now defunct military Tselina-D radio surveillance satellite.

Image taken with a Tamron 2.8/17-50mm lens at 17mm/F3.2, 400 ISO, 8 second exposure (Canon EOS 60D), from the centre of Leiden, the Netherlands. I had walked some 50 meters to one of the city moats to have a better view this low in the sky.

At about magnitude +2, ATV-4 was a bit fainter than during the previous twilight pass.

I also have video of this pass (ISS, ATV-4 and Progress-M 19M, the latter passing about 16 minutes earlier) which I will send you tomorrow.