ISS flying through the aurora

[Skuber]

Hi all,

I've just been sent this link, I found the footage of stunning beauty:

http://apod.nasa.gov...d/ap120305.html

Simon

[sallystar]

Thank you for posting that link. It was brilliant to watch.

[Monty]

I'm stunned at how bad the light pollution is!

[r3i]

Wow - great find, thanks for sharing.

As well as the spectacular aurorae, it was amazing to see how much lightning was going on aswell.

[hwsoderlund]

That is quite spectacular. Does anyone know if it really looks like that when standing at the window? I am just wondering how much of the "wow" effect is due to the equipment and post processing, such as saturating the colors, boosting the contrast etc. The aurora seems extremely bright green for example. At least on my monitor.

[paul schofield]

Lovely post, thanks for sharing that. Our atmosphere looks very fragile. Aurora, stunning.

[SteveA]

Fantastic sequence that....simply amazed at both the amount of light polution and the number of electric storms...the lightning is quite incredible.

Of course the aurora was breath taking.....

Thanks for posting..

[Jake Bullit]

Brilliant ,thanks

[Daniel-K]

i wounder how hard it would to be track a dso in while on the ISS while observing

[DazC]

Gave me goose bumps.

D.C

[Sir Roderic Spode]

Wow

[SoulFrenzy]

at the 1:00 mark Orion can be seen rising... I just spotted it... and how cool is that!

[Stevp]

Thanks for sharing!

[PreludeToADream]

The light pollution was shocking. But the video's incredible - I saw it for the first time when it was APOD but I can watch it over and over. I find the fact that you can see the stars rising in the background incredible (with the distinct shape of Orion) as well as the flashes of lightning / thunder storms. Very envious of the people on the ISS!

[Solar_observer]

STUNNING......I could watch that over and over.

tony

[Novarius]

I was thinking how boring it was until the video gets to 1m25, then it goes WOW.

[Ganymede12]

Makes you want to fly on the ISS!

[sologuitarist61]

Thanks for posting that, it was great. Especially liked the lightning flashes and the aurora - excellent

[Mike73]

I never tire of seeing these ISS time lapses and this is one of the better ones IMO.