I heard it was doing a flyby, so I got up early and ran up to Double Ditch Indian Village for a look at the International Space Station. I’ve previously photographed it at the North Dakota State Capitol building and the blockhouses at Fort Lincoln State Park so I decided to try a new vantage point. Since the NASA website tracking flyovers indicated that it would be a north-northwest approach, I chose to go north.

It was a very difficult thing to do, catching a pinpoint as it creeped across the sky, because the sun was starting to rise in the east. The sky was so bright, holding the shutter open long enough to capture the pinpoint of light as a streaking trail left the rest of the photo horribly overexposed. My solution: perform a series of quicker exposures back to back. That left a trail of dashes across the screen once I combined all of the exposures into one, so I filled in the gaps in Photoshop. I wish I could have captured what you see above entirely in the camera, but the fact that the flyby occurred at Sunrise forced my hand. Perhaps I’ll give it another attempt when it flies by in the dark!