Comments on: Time Lapse: The stars, from orbit

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:58:20 +0000

This is an awesome video! Thanks for sharing it.

@6 Clifford – don’t forget that the orbit of the ISS doesn’t follow the equator. So the Earth spins in different directions relative to the camera, depending on where the station was at the time, and on which way they had the camera pointed. I suspect it’s quite tricky to figure out the maths, though I haven’t tried it yet.

P.S. Yay for Vimeo! SO much more civilised than YouTube. Phil, please get a Vimeo channel so I can give up Google. Thanks

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My God, It’s Full Of Stars | cosmoscon — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 04:02:11 +0000

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By: Clifford

Clifford — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:21:47 +0000

Strange — on some parts the stars seem to come off the earth. In other places the stars seem to be going in opposite directions to normal direction. Made me wonder if these star images weren’t superimposed from another source. In short, these stars weren’t actually visible from the spacestation.

By: Dave Scruggs

Dave Scruggs — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 07:41:22 +0000

There is also something moving across the top of the screen at about 2:40. Maybe someone’s Estes Rocket got away.

By: Pete Jackson

Pete Jackson — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 05:16:06 +0000

Thanks to you and Aliyeza for bringing us this remarkable video! It must take tremendous expertise and work to bring all this together frpm the originals.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:17:00 +0000

I saw a small light moving horizontally, left-to-right, just above the upper part of the aurora over Earth’s surface…. but it might also be something else in orbit. It’s hard to tell.
Aliens???

Although sadly it’s probably just a simple satellite.

By: Ray Bellis

Ray Bellis — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 21:24:11 +0000

Very nice! On most of the M31 shots you can also make out M33

By: Anne Noise

Anne Noise — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 20:34:00 +0000

The ebb and flow of human lights across the planet set to the constant starscape is breathtaking. Thanks for shaking this, Phil and Aliyeza.