ISS lunar transit
Taken by Michael Seeley on April 9, 2017 @
Cocoa Beach, Florida
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Date Taken: 2017:04:10 11:15:14
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My contribution to the International Space Station / Lunar transit visible from the Space Coast tonight serves as a reminder that I really need a more solid tripod for these types of shoots. The station should be in a perfectly straight line as it transited the face of the moon, but because of the stiff ocean breeze (and the fact that I was shooting at 800mm) the image jumps around a fair amount.
This was shot from Cocoa Beach, Florida, just south of NASA's Kennedy Space Center / Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. The transit was quick, just .66 seconds. (I used Calsky and Transit-Finder to plan the shot.)
The image is a composite of 19 frames shot at 29 frames per second. I extracted the images showing the ISS, did initial edits in Lightroom, created the composite in Photoshop, and then did final edits (again) in Lightroom, with a touch of "detail extractor" applied in Color Efex 4.
I like the timing of this shot, as we near Yuri's Night (with many celebrations already having taken occurred Saturday night) and this is also the last night for Station Commander Robert S. Kimbrough, as he is scheduled to return home on Monday, in fact, as I type this, he is already in the Soyuz capsule (along with Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko).
(Photo by Michael Seeley / We Report Space)
Photographer's website:
http://mseeley.net
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