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Right at dark the ISS's path took it nearly overhead with a brilliance of mag -2.6, fading from white to pale aquamarine to reddish-brown before going black in the Earth's shadow, taking <2 minutes to traverse the 95° FOV.
In paying attention to the ISS I missed all the other activity around me: 3 planes coming in to land at the local airport, one satellite flare, one polar satellite that cuts the frame in half, and several othe fainter satellites that failed to appear in the final frame. The planets Mars and Uranus were also visible. I left the labelled photo full-sized so you can pick everything out, including some deep-sky objects (open clusters, mostly).
I let the fisheyed camera run autonomously while I concentrated on the main camera, which was a good thing. The latter was supposed to "wake up" at the proper time and start photographing, but it failed (sigh, user error) so I overrode it using a remote release in bulb mode.
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Feb 4, 2020, St. George, Utah, centered on 7:34.5pm MST.
* Panasonic G9, Panasonic/Leica Vario-Elmarit 8-18mm lens @ 8mm, iOptron SkyTracker Pro.
19 x (f/2.8, 30 sec, ISO 800) = 9.5 minutes; slow burst mode
* Panasonic GX8, Venus Laowa 4mm 210° fisheye lens, camera laying on the ground.
26 x (f/2.8, 30 sec, ISO 800) = 13 minutes; slow burst mode.
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