The bluish spots on the Earth are bolts and
storms, I feel. The reddish glow over the
Earth... The upper atmosphere? And, the most
intriguing question Is it the North Star? How
do I explain the astronomy in the trails? I
have to think...
The middle of the star trails is NOT the
north star in this case. The ISS orbit has a
axis of rotation 51.6 degrees different from
the Earth's, so the centre of this picture is
51.6 degrees away from earth's axis. The
orbit description is here , if you want to figure out exactly where
this is.
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Ian Sullivan Cant, McBomb, G'day m8, BasilLeaf, and 318 other people added this photo to their favorites.
gaskkkon (11 months ago | reply)
Espectacular!!!
planetario educa ciencia (11 months ago | reply)
The bluish spots on the Earth are bolts and storms, I feel. The reddish glow over the Earth... The upper atmosphere? And, the most intriguing question Is it the North Star? How do I explain the astronomy in the trails? I have to think...
sharkbayte (11 months ago | reply)
beautiful!
P^2 - Paul (11 months ago | reply)
11CUPS13 (11 months ago | reply)
Thanks for sharing
veronica**sweetbuckle (11 months ago | reply)
Wowzers, full of wonderfulness! I agree with 11CUP - thank you!
elwing7 (11 months ago | reply)
太太太太太太太美了!!!so coooooool!
xieyongguan (11 months ago | reply)
what's the circles
好静既静静 (11 months ago | reply)
no one but you can take this photos amazing
asifsherazi (11 months ago | reply)
wow, Superb capture
ortiz_blueice (10 months ago | reply)
Increible!!!!
luka567 (9 months ago | reply)
Spectacular!!
n0body (9 months ago | reply)
great comment!
I was just thinking it was too low to be polaris.