The International Space Station (ISS) made a pass over my part of Australia tonight (Wednesday 22nd April). Fortunately I was able to get to a spot that’s not far from home, and whose location on an exercise path meant that it was OK to be at. The whole day was an example of how wonderful Autumn can be here, and I was happy that the predicted afternoon clouds failed to materialise.

This was the longest ISS flyover that I’ve ever seen, lasting for a little under seven minutes. I wasn’t able to capture the entire traverse of the sky from northwest to southeast in one shot. What I did instead was to frame up the image, shoot off a few photos, then move the camera to offer a different view and take several shots of that vista. After looking through what I’d captured I chose the two photos that I combined to make up this final image.

The two shots that I used were taken with my Canon EOS 6D Mk II camera, a Samyang 14mm f/2.4 lens @ f/10.0, using an exposure time of 30 seconds @ ISO 100.