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 11/12 2011. An amazing night of multiple ISS flybys across UK skies. I set up tent and camera waterside and watched all night as the ISS flew over 4 times. This shot shows a double flyby (0057 & 0232 hrs) against an all night startrail. The water was on fire :-) The ISS was as bright as the moon and low lying water mist added to the eerie breathtaking scene! Stunning. Captured with Oly E5 & 8mm fisheye. Camera settings: 15s exposures shot continuous all night, ISO 500, F3.5. Mist & foreground lit with a few flash bursts away from camera.The International Space Station is the biggest and brightest object orbiting Earth (The moon does not orbit the center of the earth, rather, they both revolve around the center of their masses called the barycenter).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.
    Double ISS flyby over misty water
    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.