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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 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.
    June 08 2011. Early hours ISS flyby (0231-0236hrs) over UK skies. ISS pic (© NASA) shown for reference A very bright -3.3 magnitude. Captured with Olympus E5 & 8mm fisheye. 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.
    June 07 2011. First early hours ISS flyby (0208hrs) over UK skies. The ghostly scene captured from 2000 images (stacked) showing the ISS, clouds and startrail. Captured with Olympus E5 & 8mm fisheye.