2. Night Sky

Sky at Night

Moon, planets, stars, meteors, star trails, International Space Station (ISS). A selection from my night sky gallery. A really great resource for everything Stars & Space I use this great site http://www.meteorwatch.org
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    June 10 2011. ISS flyby (0318-0324hrs) and a super bright magnitude of -3.4. With almost 100% cloud cover I was fearing the worst for viewing opportunity. However, such was the brightness of the ISS that is shone through the deck of clouds. I was amazed. Captured with Olympus E5 & 8mm fisheye. The International Space Station is the biggest and brightest object orbiting Earth. The station's solar panels span 240ft tip to tip, as wide as a football field. The ISS outshines Venus & only the sun and moon are brighter (The moon does not orbit the center of the earth, rather, they both revolve around the center of their masses called the barycenter).Camera settings: 15s exposures shot continuous during flyby, ISO 500, F3.5. Post processing black and white conversion of the ISS images stack/combined with colour sequence of the ground lit shots.
    June 09 2011. Early hours ISS flyby (0254hrs) over UK skies. Captured with Olympus E5 & 7-14mm. Settings - F4, ISO 500 approx 6x 15s exposures shot continuous. Foreground lit with a few bursts of the FL36 flash gun.
    June 08 2011. Early hours ISS flyby (0231hrs) over UK skies combined with startrail. Captured from over 2000 images (stacked) showing the ISS, clouds and startrail. Captured with Olympus E5 & 8mm fisheye. Settings - F3.5, ISO 500 15s exposures shot continuous through night using remote cable (set to lock). Foreground lit with a few bursts of the FL36 flash gun.