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Long time since I've managed to capture this!
4 x 20 sec frames at ISO 400, Canon 700D, 10-22mm lens
Composite image.
Three of my favorite subjects: The International Space Station, the Milky Way and, of course, the still-beached sailboat named "Cuki", captured in 2 frames this morning in Melbourne Beach, Florida.
Frame 1 is the Milky Way, taken at 5:48:30 am (ISO3200, 25 seconds, f2.8) and then the second frame was at 5:49am (immediately after the first frame, ISO500, 169-seconds, f5.6) and is the ISS, streaking over the Space Coast, heading out over the Atlantic Ocean. And, I was using the Rokinon 12mm Fish-eye for this one, mounted on a Canon 5D4 (full-frame) camera.
In my first version of the composite, the star trails were cool, but distracting, because only the brightest stars left trails. So, this composite is only the ISS streak from the second frame, merged using the "lighter color" setting in Photoshop.
Also, this was all just before the official start of Nautical Twilight, but (as you can see) the color coming up on the horizon is very apparent.
#SpotTheStation
This was the beautiful scene Tuesday night as a group of us traveled to Bull Creek Wildlife Management Area.
A lot is going on in this frame. The International Space Station is the streak to the right of the Milky Way. The bright smudge on the right of the Milky Way is Jupiter, and on the other side of the cloud, you can find Saturn. And then on the left side of the frame are two other little streaks. According to Heavens-Above.com, those are most likely the GEOS3 rocket (the higher of the two) and the Cosmos 2181 rocket.
Shooting alongside were the all-very-talented John Kraus, Richard Angle, and Alex Schierholtz.
Details: This is a composite of 2 frames. The ISS streak was first at 8:45:10pm and it was run for 185-seconds at ISO500 and f5.6. I don't think I needed that long, but I wasn't sure when the ISS had left my frame. And then one minute later, I captured the Milky Way frame with a 25-second exposure at ISO3200 and f2.8. I was shooting with a Canon 5D4 and a Rokinon 12mm fish-eye lens.
The International Space Station and NASA Astronaut Peggy Whitson, flying over the Space Coast of Florida tonight (November 28, 2016) at 6:49pm (ET), seen here over Lake Washington in this single 162 second exposure.
(The bright object in the sky on the left part of the frame is Venus.)
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A few of my favorite things, and all before sunrise: beach, stars, "Cuki", night photography and the International Space Station.
I got to wave "good morning" to the International Space Station and its crew of 6 this morning (including Scott Tingle and Joe Acaba), seen here flying over the Space Coast of Florida in a single, 191-second exposure.
#SpotTheStation
Details: ISO500, f5.6 and 191-second exposure, shot with a Rokinon 12mm fish-eye on a Canon 5D4 (full-frame) camera.
Just about managed to grab this single shot due to being distracted by a continually flaring rocket body (SL 3 R/B) seen in the S/E, in fact I'm not even sure I focussed at all and only remembered afterwards! Nice pass though.
I'm delighted to share my first attempt at capturing a transit of the Sun by the International Space Station!
The transit was visible from Oxfordshire, and took place at 5:23pm BST on Thursday 6th June. The whole event lasted just 1.3 seconds!
Telescope: William Optics 70mm refractor fitted with Thousand Oaks glass solar filter
Mount: EQ5 Pro on a permanent pier, tracking at solar speed
Camera: ZWO ASI120MC camera
2,000 frame video captured with SharpCap Pro, started 12 seconds before the predicted transit time. Video was debayered, then run through PIPP to extract the 31 frames which had the ISS in shot. Those frames were then stacked using StarStaX, processed in Lightroom, Registax 6, Photoshop CS2 and Fast Stone Image Viewer.
Tonight I took my Celestial Buddies "Our Precious Planet" Earth and the Moon to wave at the International Space Station as it passed directly over the Space Coast of Florida.
This was my (our) cloudy view from Lake Washington in Melbourne, seen in a 246-second exposure.
REPROCESSED 13th JUNE 2019
I'm delighted to share my first attempt at capturing a transit of the Sun by the International Space Station!
The transit was visible from Oxfordshire, and took place at 5:23pm BST on Thursday 6th June. The whole event lasted just 1.3 seconds!
Telescope: William Optics 70mm refractor fitted with Thousand Oaks glass solar filter
Mount: EQ5 Pro on a permanent pier, tracking at solar speed
Camera: ZWO ASI120MC camera
2,000 frame video captured with SharpCap Pro, started 12 seconds before the predicted transit time. Video was debayered, then run through PIPP to extract the 31 frames which had the ISS in shot. Those frames were then stacked using StarStaX, processed in Lightroom, Registax 6, Photoshop CS2, Fast Stone Image Viewer and Focus Magic.
To see my video blog capturing this event, visit:
Or on You Tube:
The International Space Station, flying over the Space Coast at 8:10pm on October 19, 2016 seen over Lake Washington from Melbourne, Florida. Added bonus: the Milky Way is faint, but slightly visible.
This is a composite of 2 images shot using a Rokinon 12mm fish-eye lens at ISO400 and f5. The first frame is the lower streak, exposed for 203 seconds and the second frame is the higher streak, exposed for 61 seconds. Adjustments were made using Lightroom and then the frames were combined in Photoshop.
Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a Canon 1100D with 18-55mm kit lens zoomed in to 55mm. It was a short and low ISS pass but it passed over Jupiter and Saturn so I had to go out to image it. This is a stack of 3 images at ISO-1600. The ISS appeared a bit earlier than my app told me it would so I was in a real rush to grab the shots, hence the wobbly trails!
#GoodMorning to the Space Coast of Florida, and to the International Space Station and NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration Astronauts NASA Astronaut Randy "Komrade" Bresnik and Joe Acaba, seen here flying over Melbourne Beach (and the notorious and still-present "Cuki", washed ashore after Hurricane Irma).
The high and bright pass was first visible at 5:35 am and was visible for approximately 5 minutes. I ended the exposure early because a beachcomber wielding a very bright flashlight was approaching, and I didn't want the light to mess with the exposure. (You can see the light reflected off the stern of the sailboat.)
Aside from the flashlight, everything worked well for this shot, most notably, the skies we clear and the tide was low enough that I could set up (and stay dry) on the west side of the boat.
Specs: 149-second exposure, ISO500 and f5.6 taken with a 14mm lens on a Canon 5D4 (full-frame).
(Photo by Michael Seeley / We Report Space)
Wow...this was a hard one to put together, not least because the Moon at 97% was about to clear the Barn low down on the left of the frame. A composite picture of 7 frames at 10mm, 20 secs each at ISO 800 each.
The first frame just as ISS appears by the trees caught the (corrected! not decaying that's another SL-8 R/B found) rocket body SL-8 R/B (NORAD 3230) flaring. This was launched 7 May 1968 by the former USSR from Plesetsk, the payload being part of the first soviet navigation system called Tsiklon/Zaliv (Cosmos 220). These details actually took quite some sleuthing to find on the net for some reason, but thanks to Gunter Kreb's space page in the end.
According to the forecast made by Satview.org, that object's reentry will occur in Tuesday, 23 Jun 2015 at 08:53 UTC. UPDATE: Satview picked up the wrong SL-8...the one it found was launched 1981, so this RB from 1968 is still ok!
The International Space Station (ISS) passes through the handle of the Big Dipper as it passes over the Tidal Basin and Washington Monument in Washington, D.C.
The International Space Station passes over the National Air and Space Museum and the Ad Astra artwork on November 26, 2017
This evenings early pass (17:11) of the International Space Station!
It was cloudy and cold, but we still were thrilled to give an ISSWave!
30 second exposure, ISO 400, f/4.0, 75mm - cropped shot, Canon 600D
Taken from Oxfordshire overnight on 12th/13th September 2018 with an astro-modded Canon 1100D with 18-55mm lens plus Japan Optics fish eye wide angle lens attachment. ISO-800 for 30 seconds, shot on continuous for 1hr 45mins. Images stacked using StarStaX and tweaked in Fast Stone Image Viewer. There are many aircraft trails in this image but the straight white line close to the centre of the image going from top to bottom is the International Space Station
This is a goofy image from March 22, concocted in a fit of boredom while waiting for Lauren to fall asleep. She needed to be asleep so I could borrow (without protest) her Celestial Buddies "Our Precious Planet" Earth for an International Space Station pass at 8:47pm that evening.
Currently flying on the ISS is a similar plush Earth named "Earthie," sent there during the Demo-1 mission. So, I thought it'd be a nice shot of Lauren's Earth waving at its cousin Earthie.
This is a single, 3-minute exposure, but the horizon was still rather bright, and the pass wasn't particularly brilliant, so in the original version, the streak is really faint. For this image, I resorted to extracting the streak, pushing the levels, and then I did a composite of the streak and the original image. (TL;DR: Purists will consider this, well, an impure image.)
Also of note, there's a rather active dad and son fishing in the background. I was going to ask them to turn out their light but just as the flyover began, they caught a sizable garfish. (They were thrilled with themselves.)
Coincidentally, Trevor Mahlmann was out that same evening, shooting somewhere colder than here with his Earth plush, also waving at the ISS. His image is lovely, and if you're not following Trevor's work, you should be.
(Pic: me)
I may revisit this edit, but I probably won’t find the time until later in the week, so I present, as-is, the International Space Station passing nearby the Space Coast of Florida with the Milky Way in the background at approximately 5:18am on Tuesday, February 28, 2017. I say nearby the Space Coast because the closest the ISS came was 1,010 km to the SE of Florida (right of frame), and at the point it was no longer visible (left of frame), it was over 1,500 km to the ENE of Florida.
Yes, that’s me in the center of the frame, doing the #ISSWave.
The Milky Way is not as clear as I hoped. Fog, mist from a rather active ocean, clouds, and too much light pollution all conspired to impede good visualization. Frankly, I’m surprised any of it can be seen.
The image is a composite of 18 consecutive images. I shot an initial image at ISO3200, f2.8 and 25 seconds to capture the Milky Way, and then the ISS transit shots were shot at ISO2500, f2.8 and 15 seconds. In order to not have star trails and a blurry Milky Way, I used the initial image as the background, with the transit shots (and me, waving in the foreground) layered on top of that. Post-processing was done in Lightroom, the composite was created using Photoshop and then final post-processing was done in Lightroom.
What does one plane, a rocket body, a beached sailboat and the International Space Station all have in common?
They all appear in this #SpotTheStation image.
With apologies to the man and woman I unintentionally chased away from the boat, this is a single, 170-second exposure taken tonight (February 13, 2018) in Melbourne Beach, Florida.
The plane is the faint dashed line that runs from the top right cloud toward the stern of the boat.
The rocket body is the faint line pointed toward 7 o'clock in the top left corner of the frame, to the left of the rather bright star (itself also a streak, due to the rotation of the Earth). According to heavens-above.com, this is the OAO 1 rocket, an Atlas SLV-3 Agena D launched on April 8, 1966, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
The sailboat, at this point, needs no explanation. The "Cuki" is one of my favorite subjects, still beached after Hurricane Irma.
And, flying over the mast of the sailboat, the brightest, longest streak in the frame, is the International Space Station.
When I arrived at the boat about 5 minutes before the pass, there was a couple seated on chairs near the bow of the boat. I was hurried and didn't take the time to let them know that I wasn't photographing them per se, nor did I explain that they might have made neat subjects if they stayed put. They split and may well have been perturbed to have been bothered. (Sorry.)
Photo details:
ISO500, 170-seconds, f5.6 with a Rokinon 14mm on a Canon 5D4. Post-processing involved trying to mitigate the pesky clouds with a fair amount of detail work in Lightroom and Color Efex4.
Taken from Oxfordshire with a Canon 1100D with 18-55mm kit lens + Wide angled lens attachment. ISO-1600 for 60 seconds, 3 images stacked using StarStaX
With a hurricane bearing down on Florida, the Space Coast was still able to see the International Space Station and astronauts Paolo Nespoli, Sergey Ryazanskiy and Commander Randy Bresnik meet the Full Corn Moon of September 6, 2017, seen here from Titusville, Florida, just across the river from NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
The transit occurred at 3:39 am, and it lasted for 1.06 seconds.
Of note, at least to me: this is just 36 minutes after the Moon was 100% illuminated. In other words, this is probably the fullest Moon I've ever photographed, and it happens to have the ISS passing in front of it.
Also, the forecast called for mostly cloudy skies, and in fact, when I woke up (at 2 am), the skies above my house (45 minutes away from the centerline) were completely cloudy. But, the sky above Titusville was clear. And, full of mosquitos.
Technical details: This was shot using a Canon 5D4 in 4k video mode at 29.97fps at ISO800 and 1/2500 sec. For optics, I'm using a Celestron 8" telescope with a focal reducer. 34 individual frames (each of the ISS frames and two frames of just the Moon) were extracted, processed in Lightroom, combined using the "darken" mode in Photoshop, and then final adjustments were made (again) in Lightroom.
To plan the transit, I used transit-finder.com and calsky.com. Details of the transit (from transit-finder.com) are:
"Wednesday 2017-09-06 03:39:01.52 • Lunar transit
ISS angular size: 45.75″; distance: 603.91 km
Angular separation: 0.0′; azimuth: 226.5°; altitude: 40.6°
Center line distance: 0.03 km; visibility path width: 5.55 km
Transit duration: 1.06 s; transit chord length: 31.4′
R.A.: 23h 02m; Dec: -08° 25′; parallactic angle: -36.9°
ISS velocity: 29.6 ′/s (angular); 5.21 km/s (transverse)
ISS velocity: -5.24 km/s (radial); 7.39 km/s (total);
Direction of motion relative to zenith: -2.1°
Moon angular size: 31.4′; 41.2 times larger than the ISS
Moon phase: 100.0%; angular separation from Sun: 177.8°
Sun altitude: -41.9°; the ISS will be in shadow"
(Photo by Michael Seeley)
This is a collection of shots I took during 2017 of the International Space Station transiting the Sun and (mostly) the Moon, all seen from around the Space Coast of Florida. (All photos by me aka Michael Seeley)
5 x 25 sec shots, no Dragon caught chasing tonight due to the mushy sky, very evident once you stack 5 images!
At 5:15 am this (Friday, 5/26) morning, a brightly lit International Space Station flew over the Space Coast of Florida. Currently occupied by five astronauts (Commander Peggy Whitson, Jack Fischer, Oleg Novitskiy, Thomas Pesquet and Fyodor Yurchikhin), here is the ISS as it nears the end of the transit visible to Central Florida (looking toward the Southeast).
I headed to Osceola County, about 20 miles inland for darker skies, and the reward was quite worth the early morning drive: the Milky Way was quite visible, although some clouds from the Southwest were working to obscure the beautiful view I had.
Details: To not have a blurry Milky Way and star trails over the course of the long exposure for the ISS, this is a composite of two photos. The first is a 30-second exposure (ISO3200, f2.8) of the Milky Way and the second is a 156-second exposure (ISO640, f4) to capture the ISS as a streak. I am using a Milky Way frame from approximately 15-minutes before the transit because, at the time of transit, the clouds were beginning to obscure the lower visible regions of the Milky Way, and Astronomical Twilight had started, so the clouds were turning into a problem. And, I was using a Rokinon 12mm fish-eye lens on a full-frame Canon body. For post-processing, first edits were done in Lightroom; the composite was done in Photoshop and then "detail extractor" and "color contrast" filters were applied using Color Efex4.
Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a Canon 1100D with 18-55mm lens with Japan Optics fish eye wide angled attachment. 4 x 30 second shots, stacked in StarStaX, processed in Photoshop CS2 and Fast Stone
Heavens-above.com predicted a pass of the International Space Station that would be visible to the Space Coast. It was lower and dimmer than I would generally chase, but I still went to my favorite spot, the "Cuki," a sailboat in Melbourne Beach, FL that was washed ashore after Hurricane Irma.
It was cloudier than expected, and I was a bit disappointed by how undramatic the streak turned out until I later looked at the ground track of the Station. At the time of the left-most section of the streak shown here (over the condos), the Station is over the Gulf of Mexico, well south of New Orleans, roughly 1,000km away. The closest the Station would come was 750km, roughly over the sailboat in the streak, and somewhere over Alabama east of Montgomery. And, as it enters the shadow of the Earth (after emerging from behind the cloud in the right section of the frame), the Station is nearly 1,100 km away, cruising over (roughly) Blacksburg, Virgina.
New Orleans, Alabama, and Virginia. And we can see it from Florida. Kinda cool, no?
Details:
This is a composite of two 120-second exposures, shot at ISO400 and f6.3 with a Canon 5DIV and a Rokinon 14mm lens. Initial edits done in Lightroom, composite done in Photoshop (while avoiding the temptation to draw in a bolder streak) and edits were done (again) in Lightroom, then Color Efex2 (detail enhancer) and then some noise reduction was applied with Dfine2.
The International Space Station passes over the Washington, DC metro area as seen from the Reflecting Pool.
(Composite of 11 photos of the International Space Station and 8 photos for the wide-angle panorama view)
There are quite a few cool things to see at Yuri's Night Space Coast / Yuri's Night at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, but perhaps the coolest was catching the International Space Station as it cruised within sight of KSCVC at 9:14 pm (ET).
So, astronauts were on stage inside (including the ever-cool Nicole Passonno Stott), and six astronauts were outside, orbiting the planet.
Here is the ISS, seen in 20 10-second increments, with the always-cool Rocket Garden in the foreground. It's the thin line streaking from low right to middle left, rising above the Command Module on the massive (and horizontal) Saturn rocket. And, the stars are streaks as well, as the planet rotates just that much over the course of 200 seconds.
Composite of 20 10-second exposures, shot at ISO640 and f8.
The International Space Station flew high and bright over the Space Coast of Florida tonight (Saturday, December 16, 2017), seen here in a 3-minute exposure streak at 6:55 pm over a glassy Lake Washington.
Although I'm pointing (basically) west, it is long enough after sunset that the clouds are probably reflecting light from Orlando.
And, thanks to the airplane that photobombed the shot (right of frame).
Of note: the recently launched CRS13 Dragon capsule was recently launched by SpaceX, and a very faint trail from the Dragon is visble below portions of ISS streak. It passed overhead about 2-minutes after the ISS.
Details:
180-seconds, f5.6, ISO500 with a 12mm Rokinon fish-eye on a Canon 5D4 (full-frame) camera.
The Space Coast had a high and bright flyover of the International Space Station tonight, but the location I chose to shoot from was clouded over.
And, of course, 15 minutes later the sky was ridiculously clear.
So, can you #SpotTheStation in this cloudy picture taken over the Indian River, just south of the Pineda Causeway? It did peek through the clouds a couple of times over the course of the 3-ish minute illuminated transit.
And, hopefully, tomorrow I'll get to see SpaceX launch a Dragon capsule to resupply the space station.
Specs: 2 exposures, each with a 90-second exposure time, f8 and ISO400.
May I present my final contribution to the #SuperMoon2017 festivities: The International Space Station and NASA Astronaut Randy "Komrade" Bresnik, Joe Acaba, Mark Vande Hei, Sergey Ryazansky and Paolo Nespoli cruising over the Space Coast of Florida, seen here against the still very Super full Moon of December 3, 2017 at 11:50pm (ET).
This photo was taken near the entrance to the 45th Space Wing at Patrick Air Force Base, Fla., and within sight (albeit a few miles) of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40 where we hope to see SpaceX launch cargo to the ISS with #CRS13 on Friday (12/8).
Joining in the fun this evening was Justin Credible, Marcus Cote and the legendary John Kraus. We were 4/4 tonight, with all of us getting the shot, no mean feat, as the transit lasted just .58 seconds.
This picture is a composite of 17 images extracted from the 4K video recording (thank you, Elliot) I took of the transit. The camera (Canon 5D4) was set at ISO800, 1/4000sec shutter speed and f6.3, and I was using my new SIGMA 150-600mm lens for this one.
(Edited to add the following quote/endorsement/analysis from Mr. Kraus: ".58 * 29.97 = 17.38 = 17. Seeley isn’t a fraud!")
Details of the transit, from the always helpful transit-finder.com:
Sunday 2017-12-03 23:50:40.12 • Lunar transit
ISS angular size: 65.64″; distance: 420.96 km
Angular separation: 0.1′; azimuth: 123.4°; altitude: 73.6°
Center line distance: 0.02 km; visibility path width: 4.18 km
Transit duration: 0.58 s; transit chord length: 34.0′
R.A.: 05h 18m; Dec: +18° 38′; parallactic angle: 44.4°
ISS velocity: 58.3 ′/s (angular); 7.14 km/s (transverse)
ISS velocity: 1.89 km/s (radial); 7.39 km/s (total);
Direction of motion relative to zenith: -172.0°
Moon angular size: 34.0′; 31.1 times larger than the ISS
Moon phase: 99.4%; angular separation from Sun: 170.9°
Sun altitude: -82.1°; the ISS will be in shadow.
#SpotTheStation
The streak in the middle of this photo is the International Space Station, and astronauts Jack Fischer, Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Peggy Whitson soaring high over the Space Coast of Florida, seen here from Lake Washington in Melbourne, FL.
I'm facing toward the NW, and the horizon was still bright from the sunset, and compensating for the light, I had to take many 30 second exposures. The image is a composite of 5 of the frames, although, because the breeze picked up and was moving the clouds along, I'm only using the background of one of the frames.
(Photo by Michael Seeley)
"Dear Santa, For Christmas this year, I would love a dew heater to use with my telescope. Thank you."
The Space Coast of Florida was treated to clear skies for the Full Beaver Moon last night, and we had a front-row seat to the International Space Station's encounter with aforementioned Full Moon at 4:19 am. This is the second time in 2017 we were able to see a Full Moon ISS Transit here, and both times, the centerline was in Titusville, just a stone's throw from NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
Shortly after setting and aligning the telescope, I began to realize I had underestimated the effects of the weather, specifically, the temperature. The lens started to fog up immediately, and by the time the transit occurred, the image was this semi-blurry thing (left), made visible by a metric ton of clarity and dehaze adjustments in post-processing. So, for the telescope to be a practical tool, at least when it isn't a zillion degrees out, I need a dew heater.
I did bring a second camera and was able to capture a crisper image (right). However, I was only shooting through a 400mm lens, and for that, I shot stills (vs. video with the scope), so the victory here was that I was able actually to get seven frames using the "spray and pray" method of photography.
The other thing I learned is that last night's Full Moon was closer to the Earth, and therefore, bigger than the last Full Moon ISS Transit I shot (in September). That last one was just barely fully in the frame, but the Moon last night (or this morning) was too big, even with the .6 focal reducer. I was going to Photoshop the top of the Moon into this frame but decided to leave it as-is.
Also, John Kraus / John Kraus Photos and Marcus Cote were on hand for the late night/early morning fun and they captured great images of the transit.
Specs:
Left: ISO800, 1/3200sec shot through a Celestron 8" scope in 4k video mode (29.97 fps)
Right: ISO800, 1/4000sec, f5.6 with a 100-400mm lens.
Transit specs (credit: transit-finder.com):
Saturday 2017-11-04 04:19:24.68 • Lunar transit
ISS angular size: 48.76″; distance: 566.71 km
Angular separation: 9.3′; azimuth: 257.1°; altitude: 43.8°
Center line distance: 1.77 km; visibility path width: 6.24 km
Transit duration: 0.75 s; transit chord length: 27.5′
R.A.: 02h 48m; Dec: +10° 55′; parallactic angle: -49.9°
ISS velocity: 36.9 ′/s (angular); 6.09 km/s (transverse)
ISS velocity: -4.18 km/s (radial); 7.38 km/s (total);
Direction of motion relative to zenith: -30.7°
Moon angular size: 33.3′; 40.9 times larger than the ISS
Moon phase: 99.8%; angular separation from Sun: 174.8°
Sun altitude: -43.8°; the ISS will be in shadow
Taken from Oxfordshire with a Canon 1100D with 18-55mm lens with Xit super wide angle attachment. 4 x 60 second exposures, stacked using StarStaX
Space Coast, did you #SpotTheStation and NASA Astronauts NASA Astronaut Randy "Komrade" Bresnik and Joe Acaba earlier this (Sunday) evening? It was visible tonight for about 3 minutes, starting at 8:14 pm (ET). You can see it here as the series of 5 streaks in the sky, as it travels from left to right, climbing to about a 57-degree altitude before it faded from view.
Keen observers will see the SpaceX #SES11 #Falcon9 first stage, which was just this morning brought into port after successfully landing a second time, most recently on the "Of Course I Still Love You" droneship. Of note: The inaugural use of this Falcon 9 first stage was to carry supplies to the International Space Station as part of the CRS-10 mission.
Technical details: This is a composite of five 30-second exposures, all shot at ISO200 and f8 using a Rokinon 14mm wide-angle on a Canon full-frame body. It was a tad cloudy, so to deal with the clouds moving across the streak (and the motion of the boat in the foreground), I'm using the 4th frame for the background. (This is also why the movement of the stars is barely noticeable.)
The International Space Station passes over the Washington National Cathedral on the evening of a Blue Moon.
I'm delighted to share my first attempt at capturing a transit of the Sun by the International Space Station!
The transit was visible from Oxfordshire, and took place at 5:23pm BST on Thursday 6th June. The whole event lasted just 1.3 seconds!
Telescope: William Optics 70mm refractor fitted with Thousand Oaks glass solar filter
Mount: EQ5 Pro on a permanent pier, tracking at solar speed
Camera: ZWO ASI120MC camera
2,000 frame video captured with SharpCap Pro, started 12 seconds before the predicted transit time. Video was debayered, then run through PIPP to extract the 31 frames which had the ISS in shot. Those frames were then stacked using StarStaX, processed in Lightroom, Registax 6, Photoshop CS2 and Fast Stone Image Viewer.
The International Space Station passes over the Shenandoah National Park at sunset
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The sky was much brighter for the International Space Station transit tonight, and I didn't really have time to get to a particularly dark place (I was shooting nearly directly under a street light), so this is a composite of 13 images faintly showing the end of the ISS transit over the Space Coast. The camera is facing east looking over the Indian River Lagoon, and the first frame was shot at approximately 5:58pm (ET).
Lauren accompanied me on the shoot, and she is always inclined to photobomb my shots, so mid-sequence we walked out on the dock and did some proper ISS waving. As you can tell, we moved around a bit while waving (I didn't remember how much of the dock was in the frame).
Technical details: 13x13 second exposures, ISO400, f8 shot with a 12mm full-frame fisheye lens. Edits done in Lightroom, stacking done in Photoshop and then more edits done in Lightroom. The sky wasn't quite that blue, but this white balance setting does bring out the streak, so I'm sticking with it. Note that the pink clouds are fairly true - the sunset (behind me) was still throwing some color around the sky.
This was the Internal Space Station pass that preceded the Crew Dragon pass from the UK last night. It was a bright twilight sky so I had to do lots of 0.5 second exposures and stack them. I was hoping to stack the Crew Dragon pass and have them both on the same image, but the Dragon was extremely faint (as you can see in the video I shared before this image).
Taken with a Canon 1100D with 18-55mm kit lens. Images stacked in StarStarX
It's been a hot minute since I photographed an ISS pass. Here is a pass at 23:45 UT / 00:45 BST 10th/11th July 2022 moving through fast-moving, moonlit clouds. This is a stack of 6 x 30 seconds taken with a Canon 1100D with 10-18mm lens
I'm delighted to share my first attempt at capturing a transit of the Sun by the International Space Station!
The transit was visible from Oxfordshire, and took place at 5:23pm BST on Thursday 6th June. The whole event lasted just 1.3 seconds!
Telescope: William Optics 70mm refractor fitted with Thousand Oaks glass solar filter
Mount: EQ5 Pro on a permanent pier, tracking at solar speed
Camera: ZWO ASI120MC camera
2,000 frame video captured with SharpCap Pro, started 12 seconds before the predicted transit time. Video was debayered, then run through PIPP to extract the 31 frames which had the ISS in shot. Those frames were then stacked using StarStaX, processed in Lightroom, Registax 6, Photoshop CS2 and Fast Stone Image Viewer.
As you can see from the vlog parts of this video, I was extremely excited that the clouds parted literally seconds before I needed to start the video and they stayed away just long enough to capture this!