Now for something a bit different!

This is a photograph of the night sky with the tail end of the transit of the International Space Station - this was taken at 19:20 BST, around 45 minutes after sunset - I only caught the end of the transit (so will have to try again!) - the transit was from right to left - you can see the track fades out, this is because the ISS is now longer reflecting the sun (i.e. too low in the sky) to this part of West Oxfordshire - in this instance traveling from SSW to E.

ISS information for transits that can be visible in your location can be found here at heavens-above.com or spotthestation.nasa.gov.

This photograph is made up of a composite of 3 shots each of 30s, stacked manually in Photoshop - apart from adjusting levels and boosting the colours slightly, nothing else was done.

Shooting at ISO 100 is far from ideal for astrophotography...next time I will have to make sure I have more time to prepare...it wasn't until part way through that I realised I had forgotten to set the ISO - having time to do some test shots would have helped here!

Technical Details:

Nikon D80; 30s;f/5@18mm (18-70mm;f/3.5-4.5;Stock lens);ISO100 – Tripod – Post processing in LR5 and stacking in Photoshop CS5