ISS Timelapse - Southeast Asia by Night (20 Jun 2026)

SOUTH EAST ASIA
Camera setup by Chris Williams

Original timelapse by Riccardo Rossi (ISAA - Italian Space and Astronautics Association) - CC-BY 4.0 License -

Raw photos courtesy of the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center

These are two nighttime flyovers over Southeast Asia; due to the absence of the Moon, not many surface details are visible, but we can identify several types of "illumination":
that of city lights;
that of the colored lamps on fishing vessels, used to attract various fish species;
the "stroboscopic" flashes of lightning;
that caused by sunlight reflecting off the many low Earth orbit satellites;
that of orbital sunrise (particularly in the second sequence, which continues for a few seconds into daylight).

Be careful not to mistake the camera sensor's hot pixels (static bright dots) for actual stars, which instead move in accordance with the #ISS's motion.

The sequences are sped up about 10 times compared to the actual speed of the Station.
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