The International Space Station – the bright streak – shoots across the Milky Way amid the Summer Triangle stars on May 29, 2017 during one of its several passes this night. Other fainter satellite trails are also visible. Vega is at top, Deneb at left, Altair at right — the three stars of the Summer Triangle. This is a stack of 3 x 1-minute exposures with the 35mm lens at f/2.2 and Canon 6D at ISO 1250, with the camera on the Star Adventurer Mini tracker. High haze added the natural star glows – no filter was employed. The trail gaps are from the 1 second interval between exposures.
Star trails, satellite trails, and aurora and a lone Perseid meteor (at lower right) over Grasslands National Park, on Aug 11, 2016, on the peak night of the Perseids. The main satellite trail traveling at top here flares in mid trail. It may or may not be an Iridium satellite. The location is the trailhead for the 70 Mile Butte trail in Grasslands, looking east. This is a stack of 8 images taken in quick succession taken as part of a larger sequence to capture Perseids. Each exposure was 30 seconds at f/2 with the Sigma 24mm Art lens and Nikon D750 at ISO 800. Moonlight provides the illumination.
A flaring satellite, possibly and Iridium, over the oold pioneer Larson Ranch in the Frenchman River Valley in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan. This is a stack of 7 images taken at the start of a time-lapse sequence, each 30 seconds at f/2 with the Sigma 20mm lens and ISO 3200 with the Nikon D750.
