ISS Timelapse - Europe by Night (...and beyond) (02/04/05/07 September 2022)

Camera setup by Samantha Cristoforetti and Bob Hines
Original timelapse by Riccardo Rossi (ISAA) - Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License -
Raw photos courtesy of eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ archive
Music: The Voyager by JCRZ - Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivative - 4.0 International License -
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[@ThatMichaelTGuy]

Electrical storms, Northern Lights, The Stars and The Atmosphere.
Wow. Well Done Indeed.
Great musical mood.

[@monkey_gamer_001]

the music is exquisite

[@Lynne-28]

Thank you for the miraculous GIFT!!! 💚🌍💚

[@МаксимГринин-к1н]

Спасибо за видео❤

[@MISTERLeSkid]

To whoever chooses the video thumbnail for all of these ISS timelapses: There ARE other countries besides Italy.

[@astronauticast]

Hi Mister.
We are an Italian community and the majority of our audience is Italian.
Here's the reason for this choice.

[@Useaname]

I love Italy

[@bernardocosta5281]

Totalmente excelente!

[@dannyr333]

Awesome vid

[@fabioa458]

Italy is so iconic

[@louise_rose]

Yes, such an unmistakable landmark even from space! :)

[@TheManuel012009]

This must be timelapsed 10 times faster than the real ISS SPEED of 28,000 kph or 7.5 kilometres a second.

[@astronauticast]

Hi Manuel.
Your estimation is correct.

[@skp-vsk4388]

❤❤Amman

[@Ominousheat]

1:49 Defo meteor.

[@ApolloKid1961]

Belgium is easy to pick out. It is the most illuminated country in Europe.

[@louise_rose]

Italy is super easy to spot too! :)

[@markfarrugia8226]

Why can't you see any planes ? Flight aware shows hundreds of them over Europe at any time.....

[@astronauticast]

For the same reason you can't see cars, buses, trucks, or trains moving on the roads. They are too small from that height (you need a telephoto lens and a "perfect timing" to spot them).

[@richiehoyt8487]

​@@astronauticast I notice that I can see ships, though - although I would expect these to be more easily discerned than vehicles or aeroplanes.
A couple of things I'm curious about, however - would the astronauts themselves be able to see views such as these with their naked eye when looking out of the cupola? I mean to say, I understand that these are timelapse images, but that aside, are these images captured using heavy magnification and/or light intensification, or are they exactly as the Station personnel would see them?
My other question might be outside of your purview, but one often sees in 'space' videos, simulated images of the earth depicting it from _much_ greater heights, ie the kind of heights (distances?) at which geo~synchronous satellites orbit, or sometimes _even further_ out; and in such images one can still invariably see the planet's night side peppered with cities shining like stars. I would have expected that the glow of the earth's cities would rapidly recede into the darkness as one goes much higher than low Earth orbit... I mean, for all that the glow of towns, installations etc. causes light pollution which impedes astronomy and upsets wildlife (notwithstanding that it makes for pretty videos such as these!), given that streetlights are designed to direct their light downward, and given that I would have to stand directly beneath one just to read a newspaper, while views such as in _this_ video seem quite viable to me (obviously), videos which depict 'Black Marble' type images of the Earth from tens or even hundreds of thousands of miles out, and yet one can still see the continents dusted with cities -- surely such videos are taking a bit of artistic license, if they're not actually entirely fanciful? I realise that this is, to an extent, one of those "How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?" type questions, but for some reason I feel like _"I gots to know!"_ 🧐🤔🤯

[@astronauticast]

@@richiehoyt8487 Hi Richi.
In this case the astronaut can see more or less the same. The lens used for these sequeces is a wideangle and the exposure is not pushed up like other videos.
About the second question, have a look to this website
worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/?v=-171.79472851633733,-68.6822369464756,141.49453201669456,87.96239332004035&l=Reference_Labels_15m(hidden),Reference_Features_15m(hidden),Coastlines_15m,VIIRS_SNPP_DayNightBand_At_Sensor_Radiance,VIIRS_SNPP_DayNightBand_AtSensor_M15(hidden),VIIRS_SNPP_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor(hidden)&lg=true&tr=black_marble_night_lights&t=2024-09-20-T00%3A00%3A00Z
These are night-time images by NASA Suomi NPP satellite. You can browse the pictures day-by-day, and observe how the lights have changed over the years and how clearly they are visible from space.

[@papadajnia268]

4.43 POLAND ....wroclaw warszawa gdansk i ślask