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Single photo with: Milkyway, Zodical light, Starlink satellites as streaks, stars as points, atmosphere on edge showing OH emission as burned umber (my favorite Crayon color), faint red upper f-region, soon to rise sun, and cities at night as streaks lit by the nearly full moon.  Taken this morning from Dragon Crew 9 vehicle port window.

Nikon Z9, Sigma 14mm f1.4 lens, 15 seconds, f1.4, ISO 3200, adjusted Photoshop, levels, contrast, gamma, color, with homemade orbital sidereal drive to compensate for orbital pitch rate (4 degrees/sec). //

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Black/white/colored specs are from cosmic ray damaged pixels. Unfortunately, there is a firmware bug in Z9 pixel map (Nikon is aware of and is fixing w next upgrade) that prevents it from working after a large number of damaged pixels occurs; pixel map worked for a few weeks on orbit and then quit with an error so now we can not use that feature. I am taking many dark frames and will fix my images after I return to Earth.