Many people have asked me if deep space photos can be captured from the ISS. This image I took aboard of the Large Magellanic Cloud shows how! More details in comments.zeeblecroid t1_iroxgo3 wrote
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> This was taken when Space Station was flying XPOP attitude, a solar inertial attitude that allowed the solar panels to point towards the sun without tracking. Essentially, the station itself was the tracking mechanism.
... Well, this is me, never again complaining about how much a tracking equatorial mount costs.
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