You don't always have to be in a pitch black spot to enjoy seeing this marvel of human ingenuity circling the Earth. On the morning of December 17, just before sunrise, the Station rose above my neighborhood in Bristow, Virginia, reflecting the early morning Sun, big and bright, and raced on past the crescent Moon.
This is a composite of 71, 2-second exposures covering about 2 1/2 minutes of its flight.