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The photo was taken from Tác, Hungary on 21 March 2021 at 9:30:12 pm. Taken with Nikon D53000 camera and 18-55mm kit lens. Exposure: ISO 100, 1x148sec, F/5
This is a long exposure photo of the ISS for your web page. I took this photo in New Castle, Pennsylvania on 19 May, 2019 at 01:38 UTC. I took this photo with a Canon T6i. My settings were F3.5 aperture, 18mm focal length, ISO 100 and a 30 second exposure. I also edited this photo using Snapseed. This was my 3rd ever attempt at capturing the ISS in a long exposure shot, and by far my favourite.
This morning’s ISS pass with Dragon. I had gotten an alert (as I usually do) of this morning’s ISS pass (5:51-5:56 am). The maximum altitude was only 20°, so I wouldn’t have normally attempted a capture, but knowing that Dragon was to be released about 45 minutes earlier, I decided to give it a try. Canon T5i with 18-200mm lens, set at 18mm. Quick focus, then 30s exposures, f/4, ISO800 07.01.2020
This morning’s ISS pass with Dragon. I had gotten an alert (as I usually do) of this morning’s ISS pass (5:51-5:56 am). The maximum altitude was only 20°, so I wouldn’t have normally attempted a capture, but knowing that Dragon was to be released about 45 minutes earlier, I decided to give it a try. Canon T5i with 18-200mm lens, set at 18mm. Quick focus, then 30s exposures, f/4, ISO800 07.01.2020
This morning’s ISS pass with Dragon. I had gotten an alert (as I usually do) of this morning’s ISS pass (5:51-5:56 am). The maximum altitude was only 20°, so I wouldn’t have normally attempted a capture, but knowing that Dragon was to be released about 45 minutes earlier, I decided to give it a try. Canon T5i with 18-200mm lens, set at 18mm. Quick focus, then 30s exposures, f/4, ISO800 07.01.2020
Christopher Becke
I knew I had several opportunities to catch the ISS in the vicinity of comet NEOWISE, but this night presented a very close pass right through the tail. When I saw I would have clear skies, I headed out to my favorite spot at the middle of a dam with relatively low light pollution and clear views to pearls the horizon. I would say I packed up my equipment, but it had already been in my car for the past week of comet chasing! The SkySafari Pro app allowed me to properly frame the comet in anticipation of the ISS pass. Arriving at the dam, I aligned the sky tracker and mounted the camera. After several test shots, I just set my remote shutter to take continuous 30 second exposures. This is a composite of three photos taken at 2:05 a.m. UTC Sunday, July 19 2020 (10:05 p.m. EDT local). I used a Canon T5i (crop frame) DSLR with a Yongnuo 50mm f/1.8 lens mounted on an iOptron SkyTracker. Each photo was 30 seconds at ISO 400.
This picture is the result of a 33-hour-long photo experiment I had been planning for more than two years. Besides analemmas and solar eclipses, whole-day-long Little Planets were always on the top of my photo wish-list. The air was very humid and partially cloudly. From 10:00 pm to 04:30 I took the startrails but I was not satisfied seeing the result. From sunrise to sunset I took photos of the Solar disk every 20 minutes. By the afternoon my shoulder and back became completely sunburnt (this year I forgot bringing sunscreen instead of the spare batteries :). After sunset I started recording the startrails again with red lights of observing lamps of fellow amateur astronomers in the foreground. Before midnight International Space Station flew through the Northern sky — it’s visible on the photo too. In the morning of third day I retook some solar disk photos as the first ones of the previous days had been slightly underexposed and my photo experiment was completed after 33 hours. 2016.07.28-30. Tarján, Hungary Canon EOS 5D Mark II + Sigma EF 8/4.0
They were stacked using StarStaX and processed in Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer. I was expecting the ISS and Iridium 68, but Iridium 74 was a surprise flare which hadn’t been predicted, then I got really lucky and caught the meteor as well! I saw the meteor visually so it definitely wasn’t another satellite.
The photo was taken from Oxfordshire, UK on 30th May 2017. I used a Canon 1100D with the 18-55mm kit lens + a Japan Optics fish eye wide angled lens attachment to give me a wider field of view.
The photo is a stack of four images:
3 x 60 seconds at ISO-1600 f/3.5
1 x 20 seconds at ISO-1600 f/3.5
ISS Location: Hungary Time/date: 24.09.2018 ISS composite shot, Nikon D5300 + kit lens
Today I could finish a big project celebrating the 20th birthday of International Space Station. ISS was “born” on 20th November 1998, when its first part, the Russian Zarya modul was launched from Bajkonur. The 20th birthday of ISS was on 20th November this year and I decided to celebrate it with 20 different flyby photoes each taken during this November. It was a hard work, not because I had no patience to make it all happen, but because of our notoriously bad weather. The first 2 weeks of November were extremely lucky, and I could capture at least one flyby each dawn, then after some break ISS came back to our evening sky on 24th November – and then the weather was awful for several days. I almost gave up all hope but then two more proper evening came, so I could finish the project today evening at 18:12 local time when ISS disappeared in the shadow of our planet after its 2nd flyby this evening. I hope I could collect a varied bunch of pics with somewhat varied scenery (I had to travel for clear sky sometimes)!
ISS and SpaceX Dragon CRS-20 spacecraft few hours before docking. Final mission of the Dragon-1 spacecraft. Hungary – 09/03/2020
ISS and SpaceX Dragon CRS-20 spacecraft few hours before docking, Hungary – 09/03/2020
ISS and SpaceX Dragon CRS-20 spacecraft few hours before docking, close-up. The question mark object most likely is the solar array cover of the Dragon-1 spacecraft Hungary – 09/03/2020
This photo was taken on June 7, 2019 in Oracle State Park. Oracle, Arizona, United States. 5 x 15 sec exposures composited into one photo using Photoshop. ISO 250 + f/2.8 for each frame. Equipment: Sony A7iii with Rokinon 14mm f/2.8 manual aperture E-mount lens. ISS pass info: Time of Day: 20:22. 50˚ max elevation. 5 min pass.
This photo was taken on June 5, 2019 in Catalina Hills, Arizona, United States. 2 x 30sec exposures composited into one photo using Photoshop. ISO 1000 + f/2.8 for each frame. Equipment: Sony A7iii with Rokinon 14mm f/2.8 manual aperture E-mount lens. ISS pass info: Time of Day: 21:11. 80˚ max elevation. 3 min pass.
2. Long exposure over barn/tree – 8-8-18 This is a blend of 2 exposures. Both taken with Canon 5D IV and Canon 16-35 2.8 II USM The sky was taken using my iOptron SkyGuider Pro, single exposure at 179.0 seconds The foreground was shot separately and blended in. Foreground and inside of barn lit with Lume Cubes. The ISS did a lousy job of connecting the dots between Jupiter (right), Saturn (in middle of Milky Way) and Mars (left). Unfortunately, this old barn down the road from me was destroyed in a storm this spring.
3. Long exposure “ISS” Text – 6-6-17 This is a blend of multiple exposures. Several 20-30 second exposures blended for the pass, plus foreground shot using a Lume Cube to spell ISS. Taken with Canon 6D Mark I, with a Rokinon 12mm 2.8
4. Long exposure over grain silos – 7-11-16 This is a blend of multiple exposures. Several 20-30 second exposures blended for the pass, plus a foreground shot.
Long exposure – International Space Station and SpaceX Dragon CRS-19. Yeah, Canon 5D IV and Canon 24-70 2.8 II 07.01.2020
