ISS And Fireflies
Taken by Guillaume Poulin on June 11, 2012 @
near Cookshire, Québec, Canada
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Camera Used: NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D700
Exposure Time: 134/1
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 6400
Date Taken: 2012:06:12 00:37:48
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I can say that summer has arrived for a few reasons: First, I was under the milky way in a t-shirt at 11 pm. Second, the fireflies are very active. Finally, the International Space Station is visible many times per night.
All these elements came together in a few pictures I took tonight. I had an email from may friend Bernard whose a technician at the Mont-Mégantic Observatory telling me that auroras were visible. By the time a got to a darker area, the light show from the aurora was over, but the fireflies were worth the ride!
As I was taking long exposures of the milky way with the flies, I noticed the ISS rising so I framed my camera very quickly and started a 2 minutes long exposure in which I recorded the ISS, the Milky way, the fireflies and the faint glow of the subsiding aurora. That was a beautiful night!
All pictures taken with a Nikon D700 and a 14-24 lens at F2.8, ISO 6400.
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