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ISS Passing Full Harvest Moon, Jason dain

ISS Passing Full Harvest Moon

ISS Passing Full Harvest Moon, Jason dain

ISS Passing Full Harvest Moon

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The International Space Station (ISS) passing the full Mate-Calling Time / Harvest moon just outside of Milford, NS early this morning.
Using http://transit-finder.com, I planned the location where I would be able to see the transit at 2:15 this morning. I arrived at the location and setup my Nikon D850, 1.4x teleconverter and 500mm pf f/5.6 lens on my tripod and gimbal head. I used 4k video mode with a shutter speed of 1/2000th of a second, f/11 and ISO 1000 to capture a minute or so of video before and after the transit. At home, using PIPP, I extracted the 30 frames of the ISS passing the moon. I loaded those frames into Photoshop, aligned and then converted into a smart object. I cloned the smart object into two layers, one for the moon to reduce noise and another for the ISS. I used a stack mode of Median for the moon and minimum for the ISS. I rasterized the two layers, masked the ISS and the applied various adjustments to get to the final image.
September 20, 2021

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ISS Passing Full Harvest Moon, Jason dain