This an image I'd been trying to make for several weeks, but something always managed to intrude on the idea - life, family, work, weather, always something! And the day before I finally managed this, the prediction for an even brighter flare (16x brighter than this, or even more!) off the Iridium 82 satellite failed to materialise (Iridium 82 turned up at the right time, but must have spun out of control or recently failed, because it was very dim and remained so - there was no flare).
The night that I took this, it was almost completely overcast when I left the house. But I was determined to at least try. I set up 45 minutes early and acted all stubborn. And it worked! 10 minutes before the satellite pass, it started clearing, and fast! The above is the result of my stubbornness (I mean determination 
).
Iridium 18, flaring up to magnitude -4.2 over Kiama harbour, on the night of April 8, 2013:
Then this morning, in-between wind gusts that were predicted to be up to 90 km/h (the tripod, camera *and* camera bag hanging under the tripod were picked up completely off the ground a couple of times, lucky I was hanging onto the tripod at all times!), I took this image:
Iridium 13, flaring up to magnitude -6.1, over Surf Beach, Kiama:
Unfortunately resizing and Web compression kills a lot of the original detail, but I still hope you like 'em.
Comments welcome!.
