Aurora Australis

[Mike Mitchell]

Found an interesting video on YouTube of the Aurora Australis taken from the International Space Station.

Link

Courtesy: Image Science and Analysis Laboratory, NASA - Johnson Space Centre. "The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth."

Video of the Aurora Australis taken by the crew of Expedition 29 on board the International Space Station. This sequence of shots was taken September 17, 2011 from 17:22:27 to 17:45:12 GMT, on an ascending pass from south of Madagascar to just north of Australia over the Indian Ocean.

I took out my edit I thought I put it in as a post ???  I don't normally edit other peoples post sorry

[WikiWill]

Yes it does come over this way.  They have a twitter feed that announces when/where it is passing too.  One of my friends in Melbourne saw it go over early in the evening this week.

It somehow makes our planet feel a bit smaller when you can things like that in space with your own eyes!

[Dingo]

Found an interesting video on YouTube of the Aurora Australis taken from the International Space Station.

Link

Courtesy: Image Science and Analysis Laboratory, NASA - Johnson Space Centre. "The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth."

Video of the Aurora Australis taken by the crew of Expedition 29 on board the International Space Station. This sequence of shots was taken September 17, 2011 from 17:22:27 to 17:45:12 GMT, on an ascending pass from south of Madagascar to just north of Australia over the Indian Ocean.

I took out my edit I thought I put it in as a post ???  I don't normally edit other peoples post sorry

I didn't think the ISS came over the south near us.  I will have to keep an eye on the online ISS flyby site to have a look.  When I was in Canada you can see it go over at night with the naked eye it is so bright.

[veebee]

there is a passing of the IIS here on October 2nd (also the next few nights after that... at similar brightness) , at 7.17 at night (will be dark enough) with a magnitude of -2.8 !! so plenty bright and should be clearly visible !

Great site Dingo !

[Dingo]

I saw it go by in the middle of the day in Canada.  The sun shining off all their solar panels makes it bright.  I will have to try and remember to have a look.