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Satellites { 127 images } Created 19 Feb 2011

A gallery of images of artificial Earth satellites (notably the International Space Station, Space Shuttle, and Iridium flares) usually photographed travelling over nighttime landscapes.
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  • Re-Entry of Shuttle STS79 over southern Alberta, September 26, 1996 at dawn.<br />
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Shuttle is gone here, moved off over Montana, leaving greenish train behind — the ionized "smoke" trail left by Shuttle. Train persisted for several minutes. Here it is spreading out.<br />
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This image taken immediately after #3<br />
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Orion and winter-fall sky constellations visible. Venus is bright object left of smoke train. <br />
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16mm full-frame fish-eye lens. Ektachrome 400 slide film. Untracked exposure for about 40 seconds.
    Shuttle Reentry (16mm #4) 9-26-96.jpg
  • Re-Entry of Shuttle STS79 over southern Alberta, September 26, 1996 at dawn.<br />
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Shuttle is gone here, moved off over Montana, leaving greenish train behind — the ionized "smoke" trail left by Shuttle. Train persisted for several minutes. Here it is beginning to spread out.<br />
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This image taken immediately after #2<br />
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Orion and winter-fall sky constellations visible. Venus is bright object left of smoke train. <br />
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16mm full-frame fish-eye lens. Ektachrome 400 slide film. Untracked exposure for about 40 seconds.
    Shuttle Reentry (16mm #3) 9-26-96.jpg
  • Re-Entry of Shuttle STS79 over southern Alberta, September 26, 1996 at dawn.<br />
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Pink streak at upper right is Shuttle, trailing. Greenish train behind it down to lower right is ionized "smoke" trail left by Shuttle. Train persisted for several minutes.<br />
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Bright area at lower right corner is SW sky lit by Full Moon. SE Horion just visible in lower left corner as well. Orion and winter-fall sky constellations visible. <br />
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16mm full-frame fish-eye lens. Ektachrome 400 slide film. Untracked exposure for about 40seconds.
    Shuttle Reentry (16mm #2) 9-26-96.jpg
  • Re-Entry of Shuttle STS79 over southern Alberta, September 26, 1996 at dawn.<br />
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Pink streak is Shuttle, trailing. Greenish train behind it down to lower right is ionized "smoke" trail left by Shuttle. Train persisted for several minutes.<br />
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#2 image taken immediately after this one, followed by #3<br />
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Bright area at lower right corner is SW sky lit by Full Moon. SE Horion just visible in lower left corner as well. Orion and winter-fall sky constellations visible. <br />
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16mm full-frame fish-eye lens. Ektachrome 400 slide film. Untracked exposure for about 40 seconds.
    Shuttle Reentry (16mm #1) 9-26-96.jpg
  • Magnitude -8 Iridium satellite flare peaking for a few seconds as it passes near Acturus heading North.<br />
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Taken from home in Alberta.
    Iridium Flare near Arcturus.jpg
  • An Iridium satellite flare among star trails as Cassiopeia and Andromeda rise in the northeast.
    Iridium Flare (May 99).jpg
  • Pass of the International Space Station at 7:30 pm MDT, on Nov 6, 2010. Taken with 5D mark II and 8mm Sigma fisheye lens for single exposure of 8 minutes at f/4 and ISO 320. ISS goes into darkness, fades out and turns red east of zenith through Andromeda. North at bottom, South at top, East to the right, West to the left. Jupiter is in SE.
    ISS Pass (Nov 6, 2010) (8mm 5DII).jpg
  • A bright -7 mag Iridium flare seen at Rothney Observatory, August 10, 2010, during annual Milky Way Night public observing session. This is a 1m10s exposure at ISO 1000 with 10-22mm lens at 12mm and f/3.5 with Canon 7D. Time of flare was 12:20 am on Aug 11. Exposure started as satellite appeared. Image cropped from original.
    Iridium Flare at RAO (August 10, 201...jpg
  • ISS pass on the night of June 30, 2010. Composite stack of 45 10-second exposures at ISO 2000 and f/3.5 with 8mm Sigma fish-eye lens and Canon 5D MkII, in deep solstice twilight and with waning gibbous Moon just rising at right. North is at bottom and west is to the left. At least 5 other satellites in the sky, including two that flared up briefly.
    ISS Pass (June 30, 2010).jpg
  • ISS pass on the night of June 27/28, 2010. Composite stack of 48 10-second exposures at ISO 2000 and f/3.5 with 8mm Sigma fish-eye lens and Canon 5D MkII, under full moonlight. Aorcraft contrail creates the herringbone pattern in the south (top). Moon is at top.
    ISS Pass (June 27-28, 2010).jpg
  • Third of three ISS passes on the night of June 26/27, 2010. Composite stack of 68 6-second exposures at ISO 2000 and f/4 with 15mm Canon lens and Canon 5D MkII, under full moonlight. Note the other fainter satellites. Jupiter is at far left. Moon is bright object at bottom.
    ISS Pass #3 (June 26-27, 2010).jpg
  • Second of three ISS passes on the night of June 26/27, 2010. Composite stack of 35 10-second exposures at ISO 2000 and f/3.5 with 8mm Sigma fish-eye lens and Cnaon 5D MkII, under full moonlight.
    ISS Pass #2 (June 26-27, 2010).jpg
  • First of three ISS passes on the night of June 26/27, 2010. Composite stack of 60 8-second exposures with 1-second interval (thus the gaps) all taken at ISO 2000 and f/4 with 8mm Sigma fish-eye lens and Canon 5D MkII, under full moonlight.
    ISS Pass #1 (June 26-27, 2010).jpg
  • Bright -6 magnitude Iridium flare, June 21, 2010, at 12:28 am MDT, moving from south to north. Camera on tripod exposure for 40s at f/4 with 24mm lens, and Canon 5D MkII camera at ISO 1000. Star below Iridium is Acrturus.
    Iridium Flare (June 21, 2010).jpg
  • Bright -8 magnitude Iridium flare, June 20, 2010, at 2:10 am MDT, moving from south to north. Camera on tripod exposure for 40s at f/4 with 16-35mm lens at 16mm, and Canon 7D camera at ISO 2000.
    Iridium Flare (June 20, 2010).jpg
  • A composite stack of 75 2-minute exposures to create a night-long circumpolar star trail sequence but encompassing the entire sky using a fish-eye lens. Each exposure was 2 minutes at f/4 with a Canon 5D MkII at ISO 800, at 1s intervals. The image contains a bright meteor and a dual-satellite flare.
    Fish-Eye Solstice Sky (June 12, 2010...jpg
  • A pass of the International Space Station with the Space Shuttle STS129 attached and Canadian astronaut Bob Thirsk aboard, on Nov 22, 2009. <br />
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Technical:<br />
This is a stack of 3 exposures of 30s each with Canon 15mm full-frame fish-eye lens at f/2.8 and Canon 7D camera at ISO 640. The Moon and Jupiter are low in the south. Taken from home in southern Alberta at latitude 51º N,
    ISS & STS129 Pass (Nov. 22, 2009...jpg
  • Pass of the Space Station on September 16, 2009, with it rising out of the western twilight, passing between Arcturus and the Big Dipper (lower area of frame) and passing straight overhead (top of frame) and going out of frame as it heads east. So the ISS is going from bottom to top. The Japanese H1 Transfer vehicle was also chasing the ISS but is not visible here.<br />
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Technical: <br />
A blend of eight 30-second exposures, with the Canon 15mm lens at f/2.8 and Canon 5D MkII at ISO 400. Reprocessed in 2025.
    ISS Pass (September 16, 09).jpg
  • This is the Space Shuttle Discovery (lower path) on the STS128 mission, and the ISS (upper path) flying over about 4 minutes apart. Jupiter is at bottom. <br />
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Technical:<br />
This is a single 10-minute tracked exposure, September 10, 2009, with Canon 5D MkII and 15mm lens at f/4 and at ISO 200. Reprocessed in 2025.
    ISS & STS128 (Sept 10, 09).jpg
  • The International Space Station and Space Shuttle Discovery on the STS128 mission (leading) flying over on September 9; 2009. This was just a day after undocking of Shuttle from ISS. <br />
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Technical:<br />
Taken with Canon 5D MkII and 15mm lens. This is a composite stack of five 30s exposures, taken at 1 second intervals (thus the gaps) at ISO 640 and f/4. Trails of two other satellites and red trail from aircraft also in the frame.
    STS128 & ISS Flyover (Sept 9, 09...jpg
  • International Space Station, July 11, 2009 (about 12:28 am on July 12), with Canadian astronaut Bob Thirsk aboard. Fellow Canadian astronaut Julie Payette was supposed to have launched this night and have been chasing the ISS in the Shuttle Endeavour. The Moon is just rising in the southeast. <br />
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Technical <br />
A series of 20s exposures 1s apart, stacked. ISO 800 at f/3.2 with Canon 16-35mm zoom lens and Canon 5D MkII. Reprocessed in 2025.
    ISS Pass with Bob Thirsk (July 11, 0...jpg
  • These are trails of the Space Shuttle Endeavour, STS126 (left white track) and ISS (right, redder track) on November 29, 2008, the night before the SHuttle's landing,, with the two separated by two minutes. <br />
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Venus and Jupiter are to the lower left. It looks like there was another satellite flare near the ISS and Shuttle tracks, likely from an Iridium satellite. <br />
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This is looking west toward the light glow of Strathmore and Calgary in southern Alberta. <br />
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Technical:<br />
Composite stack of 24 exposures, each 15 seconds with the Canon 15mm full-frame fish-eye lens at f/2.8 and Canon 20Da camera at ISO 3200. Reprocessed in 2025.
    ISS and Shuttle Composite (Nov 29, 2...jpg
  • The Space Station (ISS) in a pass over my house, Sept. 30, 2008. The horizon glow is light pollution from Strathmore and Calgary to the west. View is looking west so ISS is rising out of the west and fades out and turns red at upper left as it goes into Earth's shadow and night on the ISS. The bright star at top is Vega. <br />
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Technical:<br />
With Canon 20Da and 15mm lens at f/2.8 and ISO 1600 for 59 sec exposure.
    ISS Pass Over House (Sept 30, 2008).jpg
  • A bright Iridium satellite flare over the Saskatchewan Summer Star Party, August 29, 2008. The flare appears above the Andromeda Galaxy and to the right of Cassiopeia. The generation of Iridium satellites that flared like this ended their lives from about 2018 on. <br />
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Technical:<br />
A single 1-minute exposure with the Canon 15mm lens at f/2.8 on the Canon 20Da at ISO 1600.  Reprocessed in 2025.
    Iridium Flare over SSSP08.jpg
  • The International Space Station with Shuttle Mission STS118 following behind as a fainter streak, on a pass on August 15, 2007. <br />
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Technical:<br />
Single long exposure of 134s at f/4.5 with 10-22mm lens at 10mm and Canon 20Da at ISO 100. Image underexposed (should have set lens to f3.5) but brought out detail in Raw conversion. Reprocessed in 2025.
    ISS & Shuttle (08-15-07 from Hom...jpg
  • This is a pass of the Space Station with the Space Shuttle attached (STS118, with Dave Williams and Barbara Morgan aboard), taken Saturday, August 11, 2007 from the Cypress Hills, Saskatchewan, the site of Saskatchewan Summer Star Party. <br />
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Shows ISS/Shuttle approaching and brightening as it nears, and also climbs above atmospheric extinction caused by forest fire smoke from Montana fires.<br />
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Technical:<br />
This is a 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. Reprocessed in 2025.
    ISS & Shuttle (08-11-07 Composit...jpg
  • Iridium flare, predicted to be -8 but looked more like -4 to -5. Sinking into south sky, Taken Feb. 1, 2006 from home. Above the flare is Mars in Taurus, and the Pleiades. <br />
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Technical:<br />
With Canon 16-35mm lens at 16mm and f/2.8, ISO 100, and a 7-minute exposure, started as flare appeared and continued, tracking, for another few minutes to record starfield, with the Canon 20Da camera. Reprocessed in 2025.
    Iridium Flare (02-01-06).jpg
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