The paths of the Space Station and Space Shuttle almost superimposed on each other but appearing in the sky a minute or so apart as they rose out of the west, with the Shuttle chasing the ISS. Venus and Jupiter are in close conjunction low in the southwest at left. This was with the Canon 20Da camera and 15mm Canon full-frame fish-eye lens at f/2.8, for a set of 19 exposures of 15 seconds each. A composite from downsized JPG originals only.
ISS with STS118, pass on August 15, 2007. Single long exposure of 134s at f/4.5 with 10-22mm lens at 10mm and Canon 20Da at ISO100. Image underexposed (should have set lens to f3.5) but brought out detail in Raw conversion.
Pass of Space Station with Space Shuttle attached (STS118, with Dave Williams and Barbara Morgan aboard), taken Saturday, August 11, 2007 from Cypress Hills, Saskatchewan, from site of Saskatchewan Summer Star Party. Composite of ten 15-second exposures at 1-second intervals at ISO1600 and f/3.5 with 10mm lens on Canon 20Da camera, stacked with Lighten mode in Photoshop, and with 1-sec gaps in ISS trail filled in with cutting and pasting trail image from previous layer. Shows ISS/Shuttle approaching and brightening as it nears, and also climbs above atmospheric extinction caused by forest fire smoke from Montana fires.
