
Thanks to
astropixie for pointing this out - a
cool video of still images taken from the ISS of cities around the world at night, narrated by astronaut Don Pettit. I saw Pettit present this video at ISDC 2007 in Dallas last May, so I'm happy to find it on the web now. He talked about how they had improvised the "
barn door tracker" from spare parts found on board the space station, which allowed them to get very sharp time-exposed images (previous hand-held digital camera images had been very poor). The still image above is an example from 2003. It's London, where I will be heading on Friday for another business trip.
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