This is actually a botched photo, because the camera didn’t do the full 80 seconds I wanted it to do, but with a bit of cropping it looks nice, too. But this photo is amazing alone for the fact that I captured it at exactly the moment when Arianespace launched the ESA ATV-4 space freighter Albert Einstein to the ISS!

A followup to yesterday’s wobbly and cloudy space station trail – this one is the one I actually wanted to do and it turned out quite well. I cut down from 128 to 80 seconds, which was actually perfect since the exposure ended just as the ISS was beginning to fade out and vanish behind the tree. There’s still some sensor glow in the top left, but otherwise it’s still not bad for a camera that was built for a maximum of 15 seconds exposure!

A late night post – my first try catching the International Space Station with the S5. Not perfect by a long shot, just a try… problem was, my tripod seems to wobble and pushing the camera to a 128 second exposure with CHDK is not really advisable because it causes some blue sensor noise in the top left. But the image is cleaner than the S2 with its maximum of 64 seconds ever was. I’m still experimenting, there’s another pass in an hour which I’ll also try to get if the weather holds up.

Das dürfte dann aber wirklich das letzte ISS-Bild gewesen sein… aber einfach mal abwarten :-).

Ich hätte gedacht, daß das Bild von Ende August die letzte Aufnahme der ISS sein würde, aber dann gabs zwei Monate später doch noch zwei Chancen.

Wahrscheinlich das letzte ISS-Bild des Jahres…

Ein mehr oder weniger gelungener Versuch, die ISS-Spur auch mal quer ins Bild zu kriegen.

Die ISS ist im Moment wieder hervorragend zu sehen!

Vom Mai 2009, aber ein sehr schönes Beispiel der “verschwindenden” ISS.

Viel Gelegenheit zum Fotografieren der ISS-Überflüge gab es dieses Jahr nicht,
aber am 20. August war mir zumindest diese 60-Sekunden-Belichtung gelungen.