Comments on: Time lapse: Sunshine over Earth

By: Messier Tidy Upper

Messier Tidy Upper — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 07:11:42 +0000

Wow!

Superluminously wonderfully marvelous. 8)

Cheers.

The use of the music from the movie “Sunshine” was inspired.

John Murphy – Sunshine (Adagio In D Minor) to be precise – credited at the end – 3 minutes and 45 seconds mark.

By: Michael Sternberg

Michael Sternberg — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 04:44:01 +0000

Wow! I got perhaps a bit jaded lately by time lapse movies but this one is truly marvelous. It has poetry, and fitting music, lifting it to emotional impact.

Seeing the earth float by under some parts of the station I was reminded of so many sci-fi movies, only to realize that this one is real.

I liked in particular the shots of the aurorae, and the inspired camera twist around 3:00 in. Great!

By: Pete Jackson

Pete Jackson — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 19:36:51 +0000

@4LouisB: The Northern Europe sequence must have been assembled in reverse, since the ISS does move eastwards. Just after the Europe sequence, they show passage over the Great Lakes, this time moving east.

By: Joe Helms

Joe Helms — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 19:27:42 +0000

Wow, really really beautiful stuff.

I’m so used to seeing old footage of the earth on tv that this looks almost TOO good to be real! Truly is awe-inspiring.

Love the music – didn’t see the attribution at first and was trying to figure out just exactly where I knew it from!

By: Louis Bookbinder

Louis Bookbinder — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:55:21 +0000

I noticed one scene near the end of looking back on Moscow followed rapidly by Poland, Germany, and the English Channel. This means the ISS was orbiting WESTward over northern Europe. Did I miss something? I thought the ISS was launched Eastward (and assembled to its current completion) because it was much easier to service by craft launched eastward.

I suspect the editor assembled the individual frames of its Northern European passage in reverse order for visual effect. Can anyone verify this?

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By: Raymond

Raymond — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:44:20 +0000

Really beautiful, just a pity how bad light pollution is….

By: Pete Jackson

Pete Jackson — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:32:51 +0000

Just breathtaking, both audio-ally and visually! Thanks for posting it.

Those high, red, aurorae at 1:00 and else-times make it clear that the ISS is still flying through the earth’s atmosphere, even at such a great height.