August 18, 2007
Somewhere in the sky tonight, a star is being born in a cloud of gas and dust, beginning a journey that will last billions of years.
ISS Over Mont-Megantic Observatory
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APOD published August 18, 2007. Credit: Guillaume Poulin (Astrolab du Parc du Mont-Megantic). A publication-date match, not a photo taken on your date. Independent of NASA.
On August 1st, a time exposure created this surreal view that looks up into the early morning sky over southern Quebec. Only the light from a nearly Full Moon brightens the sky and highlights the dome of the 1.6 meter telescope at Mont-Megantic Observatory. Shadowy figures on the catwalk are astronomers who have interrupted their work to glimpse the International Space Station (ISS) streaking overhead. The brightest "star" in the moonlit sky, the ISS was easy to spot moving through a background of stars in the high-flying constellation Pegasus.
Image credit: Guillaume Poulin (Astrolab du Parc du Mont-Megantic)