A LOCAL photographer has spoken of the “amazement” of capturing the moment the International Space Station (ISS) flew over the Dumbarton night sky.

Gerry Doherty took to his back garden in Dumbarton to capture the magnificent sight of the ISS - the largest single structure humans have ever put into space, manned year-round by citizens of different countries - as it barrelled past the area through the stars on the night of Saturday, January 30.

Gerry told the Reporter: “I have an app that gives you the time that it’s flying over, and I used a DLSR camera on a triped with a twenty second exposure with a remote release to capture the photo.

“It just amazes me everytime I see it flying overhead at 17,000 miles per hour that there are astronauts and cosmonauts working aboard it.

“Even in lockdown you don’t have to travel to get interesting shots of the night sky, just look up from your garden.”

The giant collaborative project was launched in 1998 and intended as a laboratory, an observatory and factory for space transportation.

Occupying astronauts are given a “run” at the station for six months at a time as the station orbits the earth 16 times per day.

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