The Big Foto

Timelapse videos depicting the stars from low earth orbit, as viewed from the International Space Station. Images edited using Adobe Lightroom with some cropping to make the stars the focal point of each shot, and with manipulation of the contrast to bring out the stars a bit more.
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Last week one of NASA’s images of the day was the international space station(ISS) as seen from a german remote sensing satellite (#1), so I decided to find out more about the ISS.
In this set you can see the evolution of the International Space Station through some of the best shuttle mission imagery that [...]

On March 13, 2008, the International Space Station passed across the field-of-view of Germany's remote sensing satellite, TerraSAR-X, at a distance of 195 kilometers, or 122 miles, and at a relative speed of 34,540 kilometers per hour, or more than 22,000 mph. Credit DLR