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This is the passage of the International Space Station (the main 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.

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!

But, another unidentified satellite adds the south-to-north trail.

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 satellite trails are from the 1s interval between exposures. The frames were stacked to add all the content, so the stars also trail during the roughly 3.7 minutes of total exposure time.
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This is the passage of the International Space Station (the main 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. <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 /> But, another unidentified satellite adds the south-to-north trail. <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 satellite trails are from the 1s interval between exposures. The frames were stacked to add all the content, so the stars also trail during the roughly 3.7 minutes of total exposure time.