The ISS transits Castle Valley...

a little after 10 pm MDT this evening, 254 miles above my red rock hacienda, zooming by at 16,000+ mph. I offer this image as a salute to the SpaceX team that docked the first crewed Dragon capsule with the station earlier in the day, ending a nine year long hiatus of the ability of the US to launch astronauts since the abandonment of the space shuttle program a decade earlier. Kudos, SpaceX!!

Tripod-mounted Canon 6D with 14 mm Rokinon lens at f/2.8, ISO 100, 180 second exposure.  The foreground was illuminated by the ambient light of the waxing Moon.

Tripod-mounted Canon 6D with 14 mm Rokinon lens at f/2.8, ISO 100, 180 second exposure. The foreground was illuminated by the ambient light of the waxing Moon.