"There is much pleasure in useless knowledge." — Bertrand Russell
I didn’t hold high hopes for the NOAA 15 pass tonight, but the combination of the late evening twilight and the nearly overhead pass made a pretty nice looking pass.
Pretty nifty, I think.
Addendum: The above image appears pretty dark, so I cut out just the visible light portion of it, rescaled the brightness ina a completely arbitrary way, and did some median filtering to remove some of the spot noise.
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