A Path Amongst the Heavens

You'll probably need to view this large or original size to see it well, but this was a capture of the International Space Station and Space Shuttle Atlantis on June 19, 2007. The trail passes just beneath the moon and extends across almost the entire frame. Both space vehicles traveled from right to left (West to South-East). This was taken facing almost due-west.

This was taken a few hours after Atlantis un-docked from the ISS, and actually was visible following the station about half the visual distance Saturn is from Venus (see notes). The trails from both mostly overlapped in this exposure, but in the original size image you can see sections where the line appears thicker or thinner, indicating that the shuttle was slightly parallel to the station and may have been manuevering.