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This is the passage of the International Space Station (the bright streak going from west to east, right to left) on September 13, 2024, passing above the bright waxing gibbous Moon low in the south. The lens field of view wasn't quite wide enough to capture the end of the path at left when the ISS faded into Earth's shadow. The bright star above the ISS trail at top centre is Altair.

At this time the ISS had a record 12 astronauts on board, including veteran Don Pettit and the two Starliner test astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams. There were also 5 Russian cosmonauts on board, and 4 other NASA astronauts.

There were also a record 19 people in space at this time, also counting the 4 crew members of the private SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission, and the 3 taikonauts on board the Chinese Tiangong space station. Neither craft are in this picture!

Technical:
This is a stack of 14 x 15-second exposures taken from home in Alberta (latitude 51° N) on a bright moonlit night, with the Viltrox 16mm lens at f/2.8 on the Nikon Z6III at ISO 400. The gaps in the ISS trail are from the 1s interval between exposures. Only the first image was used for the ground and sky, to keep the stars as pinpoint as possible.. The subsequent exposures were masked to add just the ISS trail onto the base image, using a Lighten blend mode.
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This is the passage of the International Space Station (the bright streak going from west to east, right to left) on September 13, 2024, passing above the bright waxing gibbous Moon low in the south. The lens field of view wasn't quite wide enough to capture the end of the path at left when the ISS faded into Earth's shadow. The bright star above the ISS trail at top centre is Altair. <br /> <br /> At this time the ISS had a record 12 astronauts on board, including veteran Don Pettit and the two Starliner test astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams. There were also 5 Russian cosmonauts on board, and 4 other NASA astronauts. <br /> <br /> There were also a record 19 people in space at this time, also counting the 4 crew members of the private SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission, and the 3 taikonauts on board the Chinese Tiangong space station. Neither craft are in this picture!<br /> <br /> Technical: <br /> This is a stack of 14 x 15-second exposures taken from home in Alberta (latitude 51° N) on a bright moonlit night, with the Viltrox 16mm lens at f/2.8 on the Nikon Z6III at ISO 400. The gaps in the ISS trail are from the 1s interval between exposures. Only the first image was used for the ground and sky, to keep the stars as pinpoint as possible.. The subsequent exposures were masked to add just the ISS trail onto the base image, using a Lighten blend mode.