An Iridium satellite flare over the Saskatchewan Summer Star Party, August 2008.
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.
