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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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Geosat Trails near Saturn in Aquariu...jpg
ISS Pass Sept 13, 2024 (Single Backg...jpg
ISS Pass Sept 13, 2024 (Full Stack).jpg
Space Station over Waterfowl Lake.jpg
Satellite Strewn Sky (June 4-5, 2024...jpg
$This is a demonstration of the crowded sky we now have, with all the trails being from Earth-orbiting satellites, with the exception of the tapered orange streak at lower right which is likely a meteor. This is a stack of 40 exposures taken over 70 minutes, layered to accumulate the satellite trails, not eliminate them, to show how many satellites crossed the field in the hour plus of the imaging. Are some SpaceX Starlinks? Perhaps, but there are many other satellites up there now. The field is 11° by 7.5° (a telephoto lens or binocular field), and frames the constellation of Corona Borealis. I shot the frames in early May when from my latitude of 51° N the upper atmosphere is illuminated long after twlight ends down on Earth, so satellites remain visible. In this case, most were telescopic in brightness and not naked eye. Nevertheless, it shows how no photos now are free of satellites, especially when taken at higher latitudes during the weeks around the summer solstice. Technical: This is a stack of 40 x 2-minute and 1.5-minute exposures with the Askar FMA180 Pro astrographic refractor (with 180mm focal length) at f/4.5 and the Canon R5 at ISO 1600. Tracked but unguided on the Astro-Physics AP400 mount. Taken from home May 3, 2024. The field also contains many short faint vertical streaks (visible only upon very close inspection) that are from hot pixels on the camera sensor, and turned into streaks due to the mount drifting in declination slightly from less than precise polar alignment and no auto-guiding.$

Satellites in Corona Borealis (FMA18...jpg
Rocket Fuel Dump Sept 10, 2023 First...jpg
ISS Passage Past Planets (May 22, 20...jpg
ISS and Axiom AX2 Pass (May 21, 2023...jpg
Starlink Passage - G2-9 May 15, 2023...jpg
Satellite Web in Coma Berenices.jpg
Starlink Passage - G2-9 May 14, 2023...jpg
Satellite Trails (Wiggly Trails - Ma...jpg
$This is NGC 457, the ET or Owl Cluster in Cassiopeia, in a stack of images showing the total number of satellite trails recorded over the 36 minutes of total expposure time this night. By coincidence, the trails frame the main subject, but the number of satellites now above us make it nearly impossible to take a long exposure image, certainly at the start or end of a night, without recording at least one satellite trail, if not more, per image. Some of the parallel streaks could be Starlink satellites. This was from 51° north on a mid-October night, between 8:18 pm and 8:52 pm MDT. This is a stack of 12 x 3-minute exposures, stacked to add together, rather than average out, the trails. This was with the Starfield Géar90 apo refractor at f/4.8 with its Reducer/Flattener, and Canon Ra at ISO 1600.$

NGC 457 with Accumulated Satellite T...jpg
StarLink G4-23 Passage (Aug 29, 2022...jpg
ISS over Hoodoos at Dino Park.jpg
All-Night Satellites (June 1-2, 2022...jpg
Starlink Satellite Train (May 16, 20...jpg
$This is a stack of images demonstrating the number of satellites passing through the field of a wide-field telescope over a little more an hour. The field frames the Coma Berenices star cluster. This is from my home at 51° North, a latitude more prone to seeing satellites lit by the Sun well into the evening, if not all night closer to summer solstice. Most trails are north-south so they are likely NOT Starlink satellites but polar orbiting satellites. Interesting that the trails have different colours, likely from their solar panels or other structures reflecting blue and gold tints. This is a stack of 12 x 6-minute exposures started in deep twilight (thus the blue sky background) on April 24, 2022, stacked (with Maximum stack mode) to add the exposures together so the trails accumulate, rather than a median stack mode to eliminate the trails as would normally be done. This was with the Sharpstar 61 EDPH II refractor at f/4.5 and Canon EOS Ra at ISO 800 for a field of 7.5° x 5°, so similar to binoculars.$

Satellite Trails in Coma Berenices (...jpg
SpaceX Inspiration4 Pass (Sept 16, 2...jpg
ISS Pass in Moonlight (May 18, 2021).jpg
Starlink Train over Dino Park (May 1...jpg
Flaring Geosats (March 9, 2021).jpg
Flaring Geosats with Labels (March 9...jpg
Flaring Geosats (March 7, 2021).jpg
Geosat Trails Flaring Below Mars (Oc...jpg
GeoSats and Star Trails (Annotated).jpg
GeoSats and Star Trails.jpg
ISS Passage with Moon & Mars Con...jpg
Starlink 5 Train in Twilight (April ...jpg
Starlink 4 Satellite Pass (March 26,...jpg
StarLink2 Star Trails (Jan 17, 2020).jpg
StarLink1 Pass (Jan 5, 2020).jpg
ISS Pass on Dec 2, 2019 (EOS Ra 8mm).jpg
Milky Way and ISS over Waterton.jpg
Starlink Satellite Train in Big Dipp...jpg
A Last Iridium #61 (May 7, 2019).jpg
ISS Pass with David St. Jacques (Jan...jpg
ISS Pass with David Saint-Jacques (D...jpg
ISS Pass with David Saint-Jacques (D...jpg
ISS Pass with David Saint-Jacques (D...jpg
Mars, Meteor, Milky Way and Iridium ...jpg
Moon, Mars & Jupiter (Jan 11, 20...jpg
Twin Iridium Flares (Oct 9, 2017).jpg
Iridium Satellite Trail.jpg
ISS Overhead Pass (Oct 5, 2017).jpg
Tumbling Satellite at Dinosaur Park ...jpg
Double Satellite Trail.jpg
ISS Fading over Reesor Lake.jpg
ISS Flying Away at Dawn (July 15, 20...jpg
ISS and Iridium Pair at Dawn (July 1...jpg
Twin Iridium Flares (July 15, 2017).jpg
ISS Pass Into Shadow (May 30, 2017).jpg
ISS Across the Milky Way (35mm 6D).jpg
ISS Through the Aurora (May 27, 2017...jpg
ISS and Aurora - In the East from RA...jpg
ISS and Aurora - Overhead.jpg
ISS & Aurora - Rising in the Wes...jpg
Satellite Trails at 70 Mile Butte.jpg
Satellite Flare over Larson Ranch.jpg
Meteor, Iridium & Lightning (Jul...jpg
ISS over Kicking Horse River.jpg
ISS Pass #2 (May 28, 2016).jpg
ISS Pass #1 (May 28, 2016).jpg
Space Station over Red Deer River.jpg
ISS, Iridium & Planets in Twilig...jpg
ISS Pass #4 - May 31, 2015.jpg
ISS Pass #3 - May 31, 2015.jpg
ISS Pass #2 - May 31, 2015.jpg
ISS Pass 1 - May 31, 2015.jpg
Iridium Flare over Pyramid Mountain.jpg
Space Station over Mt. Cephren (Comp...jpg
Space Station over Mt. Cephren (Sing...jpg
Iridium Flare (June 20, 2014).jpg
ISS Pass (May 30-31 2014).jpg
Glow from Satellite Fuel Dump #2 (Cy...jpg
Glow from Satellite Fuel Dump (Cypre...jpg
Iridium Flare over Castle Mountain (...jpg
ISS Pass Over Star Party (Aug 10 201...jpg
ISS Pass - June 9, 2013 (8mm 5DII).jpg
ISS Pass #2 (June 4-5, 2013).jpg
ISS Pass #1 (June 4-5, 2013).jpg
ISS Pass with Chris Hadfield (April ...jpg
ISS Pass with Chris Hadfield (Feb 15...jpg
ISS with Chris Hadfield (Feb 10, 201...jpg
ISS Over Bow Lake (Aug 20, 2011 Pass...jpg
ISS Over Bow Lake (Aug 20, 2011 Pass...jpg
ISS Over Banff (Aug 19, 2011) (8mm 5...jpg
ISS Pass Over Moose Meadows, Banff (...jpg
ISS Pass (June 22, 2011).jpg
ISS Pass (June 20, 2011).jpg
ISS Pass (June 21, 2011).jpg
Easter Sunday Pass of ISS (April 24,...jpg
ISS & Discovery STS133 (Feb 27, ...jpg
Shuttle Reentry (28mm #6) 9-26-96.jpg
Shuttle Reentry (28mm #5) 9-26-96.jpg
Shuttle Reentry (28mm #4) 9-26-96.jpg
Shuttle Reentry (28mm #3) 9-26-96.jpg
Shuttle Reentry (28mm #2)9-26-96.jpg
Shuttle Reentry (28mm #1) 9-26-96.jpg