Thanks to https://www.heavens-above.com/, I can have very accurate predictions of the ISS passing Sg skies.
The ISS's passing this morning was quite bright, at a visual magnitude of -3.9.
The weather was however quite unpredictable and had been cloudy and rainy all night. Luckily at the time of the ISS passing, the skies were not so cloudy and the presence of high think clouds did not bother too much for watching the bright objects.
The final image composition was not ideal -- I made some mistakes. But I was absolutely hooked when I was adjusting my camera settings while noticing a very bright point approaching from far north -- just past the bright star Vega.
That's more than 1000km away. At an approaching speed of nearly 8KM per second.
The next few seconds were chaotic when I had to tune the exposure settings, activate my remote control App on mobilephone, and .... I actually don't remember much -- just being excited.
The closest approach was 400km+.
When ISS had passed my camera view, I took up my binoculars to watch it -- it looked like a flying Venus -- with a bright halo around it -- the illuminated cirrus clouds.
The next moment I took out my mobile phone and snapped a few pictures in the hope to capture its fast motion in a wide view.
And indeed I am quite proud of mankind making such an amazing thing.
