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ISS Travels Through The Big Dipper, and By The North Star

The Summer of tracking the ISS continued tonight, this time with a fly-through of The Big Dipper, and an extremely close encounter with Polaris.

The Pleiades were the last stars I photographed during the 2021 Lunar Eclipse. I framed this picture in context of my prior images and sketches.

With finally a completely clear night, I set up my iPhone with NightCap to record the ISS traveling overhead.

In hindsight, this may have been a nice long-exposure NightCap image.

The ISS moved very slowly “up.” I was surprised by the speed.

For the Spring Triangle, you are seeing the complete and full dimensions of the source image.

I will say this for cloudy weekdays – at least I don’t have to make up excuses for not taking my telescope and camera out on a “school night.”

I have been searching for a way to accentuate the stars based on their brightness, short of manually blowing them up.

A lot of stargazing stuff happened on or around the Ides of March, and I am still getting caught up.