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Michael Gates | all galleries >> Galleries >> Saddleback Fire Lookout 2013 > ISS International Space Station passby 915 p.m. 04Aug13
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04-AUG-2013

ISS International Space Station passby 915 p.m. 04Aug13

The International Space Station orbits between 205-270 miles up, and at times can be quite bright in the pre-dawn or after sunset if it's overhead path catches the right angle to the sun for a good reflection. There's a great website called Heaven's Above where you can put in your lat/long and find out times and brightness over your location. The higher the negative number (the more negative the number), the brighter the pass. This one was -2.6 in magnitude. Also, NASA has a site that will alert you by email when the brightest passes are coming near you, though it uses your closest city as reference. It's called SpotTheStation
The shot is a little washed out as it was a 4 minute exposure and there was still some twilight happening.

Nikon NIKON D7100
241s f/2.8 at 14.0mm iso400 full exif

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