I’m going to have a hard time justifying a new lens if I can be walking down the sidewalk and point up at the moon and bring home a handheld shot like this one. Some days it’s better to be lucky than good, I guess! Bright moonlight skies make it really hard to watch for auroras…

The International Space Station (ISS) will be visible over Bismarck this month! If you’ve never seen it, it’s quite large and moves very quickly overhead. When the Space Shuttle is docked with it, the thing is enormous.

Because of its orbit, it’s not always visible from Bismarck. This month, however, it will be. It only takes a few minutes at most to pass from horizon to horizon.

You can track the ISS overhead by clicking here.