I waved at some astronauts.

I am not sure if they saw me, or if they were even looking, but I managed to see their space craft go whistling by tonight.

ISS arrival

In that 1st shot, you can just see the light trail as they swept across the sky at dusk. (Click these photos for a better view)

88 seconds of flight...

You can see them a lot easier in that shot. That is an 88 second exposure of them at their highest in the southern sky. Whizzing past the Milky Way.

This is just as they passed out of the sunlight and into darkess.

The last shot shows them dipping into the darkness of space. I am pretty sure I haven’t seen it before, and I know I was pretty excited for a 41 year old when I 1st spotted it. It still seems pretty amazing that you can see them, all the way up there in space.

Kudos to all involved.