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\"\"<\/center>I knew that the space station was going to be passing by tonight, because it has been doing so on a nightly basis. I perched myself on the University of Mary hill, got my camera ready, and had one shot at success. I was hoping for a little flatter trajectory, with an arc passing almost horizontally across the frame, but that wasn’t in the cards. I got the shot, however. I processed different areas of this photo differently to bring out the detail in each.<\/p>\n

The ISS traversed the sky overhead for several minutes before fading into the dark night sky. Then I hopped in the truck, ran back to town and perused the Bismarck public library for a bit, then brought home a Lightning McQueen toddler bed for one of my two two-year-old boys. Ka-chow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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