From the International Space Station - today.

[boatbuilder]

I just happened to look at the ISS tracker late this afternoon at about 16:30 and the International Space Station was moving across the North Atlantic towards the UK. I then went onto the live stream on the ESA website and as it approached and travelled over the UK I took the following seven screenshots between 16:42 and 16:49. As most of the country was cloud free, and the camera was switched a few times in those seven minutes it gave some interesting results.
Here they are in the order taken. They are all 1920 x 1080 resolution so can be viewed larger than here.

1. Ireland at the bottom of the picture with Great Britain beyond. Time: 16:42:52


2. Great Britain. Time: 16:43:28


3. The east coast of England with the Netherlands beyond. Time: 16:44:15


4. Camera switched to looking down. South is to the top of the picture with Anglesey and the North Wales coast towards the top right, with Liverpool Bay/Irish Sea and Isle of Man just right of centre. Time: 16:45:04


5. The east coast runs top to bottom towards the left of the picture with Flamborough Head at the centre. Time: 16:45:15


6. Having passed over the UK the camera switched - looking back towards the UK showing the English Channel and North Sea at the bottom of the picture. Time: 16:47:54


7. Taken further east from the previous image, the Netherland's coast is now in the picture. Time: 16:48:21

[boatbuilder]

Two images taken today - both 1920 x 1080 pixel resolution.

Taken at 14:02 (BST) South-west Ireland to the bottom right.

Taken at 15:19 (BST) Florida and the Florida Keys - centre-left with The Bahamas off to the right.
Cuba is towards the bottom-right of the image

[boatbuilder]

This was taken at 20:33 (GMT) tonight as the ISS crossed the Mid-west USA. The moon can be seen about a third of the way between the horizon and the top of the picture in the left half of the image.

Image resolution is 1920 x 1080 pixels.

ISS Crossing the Mid-west USA - 20:33 (GMT) 19th October 2018.

[boatbuilder]

Two images taken about 12 minutes ago, (33 seconds apart) as the ISS passed over the UK from west (right) to east.
In the second image the Wash and the North Norfolk coast are towards the top right (South) with the Humber further down the picture.
Image resolutions 1920 x 1080 pixels.

Taken 12:03:30 (BST) 21st October 2018

Taken 12:04:03 (BST) 21st October 2018

[boatbuilder]

Two further ones today on the next pass of the ISS. The first showing the south and east of England and northern France. The second shows the French Alps and the Mediterranean coast to the bottom-left. Images taken 87 seconds apart.
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 pixels

Taken 13:42:36 (BST) 21st October 2018

Taken 13:44:03 (BST) 21st October 2018

[boatbuilder]

The sun rising over Japan on 'their' Sunday morning a few minutes ago.

[boatbuilder]

A few more posts of images taken over the past 24 hours.
The first one is of the Korean Peninsula and the second of the same with three of the main Japanese islands - the southern part of Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu. The screenshots were taken 59 seconds apart.

Taken at 00:57:05 GMT 4th November

Taken at 00:58:04 GMT 4th November

[boatbuilder]

These next three images are of the African Coastline and South Africa as the ISS travelled in a south-easterly direction.
The first one shows the coastline of North-west Africa from Western Sahara through Mauritania to Dakar in Senegal.
The second is of the coastline of Angola and Namibia in South-west Africa, and the third is of South Africa.
The fourth image shows the path and the approximate locations of the ISS when the second and third images were taken.

Taken 11:48:18 GMT 4th November

Taken 12:00:52 GMT 4th November

Taken 12:04:29 GMT 4th November

[boatbuilder]

The final image is of the Falkland Islands with the accompanying image showing the approximate location of the ISS at the time.

Taken 21:33:54 GMT 4th November

[boatbuilder]

These four images were taken about 10 minutes ago of the sun setting over the south-east Pacific off the South American coast.

Time 00:32:52 GMT November 9th

Time 00:34:54 GMT November 9th

Time 00:35:02 GMT November 9th

Time 00:35:27 GMT November 9th

[boatbuilder]

Three images taken a short while ago of the sunrise over the Caribbean as the ISS travels in a south-easterly direction (top to bottom). The first two images show the very long shadows cast by the tall cloud formations with the sun being so low to the southeast.
The third image taken a couple of minutes later shows the west side of the island of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Cuba is just about visible to the north west of Haiti.

Taken @ 11:54:17 GMT 13th November

Taken @ 11:55:04 GMT 13th November

Taken @ 11:57:14 GMT 13th November

[boatbuilder]

I have created some Bulletin Board Code (BBCode) to enable the embedding of videos from other websites, where those sites permit and supply the appropriate code. I will post a topic in the relevant forum to explain how you can use the code which is now available in the main 'Post Reply' box.

I have decided to start this off using the live stream from the ISS which is from where I have posted the images in this topic.

The stream is currently available 'live' 24/7 but at times might be off-line when there is no signal being received at the receiving stations on earth. Other times the screen may just be black and this is when the ISS is in the earth's shadow, which is for about 45 minutes in every 90 which is about the total time it takes to orbit the earth.

The video can be viewed full-screen and the resolution can be changed up to 720p or set to 'Auto' using the icons at the foot of the video.

[boatbuilder]

This was taken at 11-16 am today as the ISS crossed the UK. South is to the top of the picture and The Wash and East Anglia are visible from the lower-centre going upwards towards the left.

[boatbuilder]

I was following a live broadcast on NASA TV this morning of their new attempt to send up a docking capsule to the ISS now that the Space Shuttle is no longer in use. This was a test mission using an unmanned capsule and it successfully docked with the ISS shortly before 11-am GMT.

I took a number of screenshots at various stages of the docking process using my iPad and now have created a stand-alone webpage on another domain of mine where they can be viewed as a slideshow HERE