ISS & Nauka

During a recent stay from my brother, we sat one night in the hot tub and saw the ISS pass, we chatted for a while about it and found that another pass was due the following night. Camera ready and waiting 24 hours later I captured the pass as it was descending in the East, we also spotted what looked like something following it. What I didn't realise that just 8 hours earlier from pad 39 at KSC the Russian module Nauka launched atop of a Proton M rocket. Numerous delays of fuel leaks and dust contamination saw a 14 year wait in all for Nauka's launch. Eight days later it successfully docked with the ISS.

You can just see Nauka in the frame top right.

1 x 15 second image ISO400