Boy, the weather here is great. We're expecting clear skies most of the weekend, and I plan on spending each night observing.

And since it's now a great time to see the space station fly over several times an evening, I set up outside our observatory in a place where I figured I could get the station over the building.

I made sure I took a few practice shots to get focus, and then just waited with my finger on the remote.

ISS was -2.5 from my location, and it didn't disappoint. There happened to be a small group of girls up there visiting with their soccer coach, and they were amazed to see it, because they didn't know you could see things like satellites fly overhead.

The details of the pass had ISS coming out of the southwest at 231 degrees Az and max altitude (time: 21.54 ET) at 72 degrees, finally disappearing at 58 degrees Az.

Photo Details: Canon 40D, 12mm @ f4, ISO 200, 20 second exposure, camera handled NR. Just had to convert the RAW image, and crop for the web, as I didn't want to post a extra-large image.

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Very nice capture, very poster like photo. Welldone and Clear Skies

Nice shot. And a great looking observatory!

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Hey Kevn
Good Shot!!
And am sure you have now GFs too;-)