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So the wife and I bought a little cabin in the mountains of Northern Georgia, in the states. It's a wonderful place with super dark skies. I can finally view the Milky Way for the first time since I lived in Northern Michigan 10 years ago.

Anyway, while we were up there over the past few days CalSky.com sent out an alert email letting me know the HTS was going to fly over at 6:45 PM Tuesday the 27th. Unfortunately, my Nikon D40 batteries had drained so I had to grab my point and shoot Kodak and take a few 8 second (max for this camera) exposures in the general direction of the flyover. I knew it would be just under Venus, and with a magnitude of 3.0 not very bright.

As it turned out, however, the sky there is so free from light pollution we were able to see the HTS very well. So I took a few 8 second exposures while we watched and just hoped to get at least one useful picture. Here's the one image I did get of the HTS as it flew over us at 17,000 miles per hour, 320 miles above the surface of the earth. Also, if you can't tell, that is Venus to the right. ;)

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And a crop of the actual HTS at full size:

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