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That's great! Below are some beautiful captures of aurora borealis:

- https://callumprentice.github.io/apps/iss_photo_explorer_fla... - https://callumprentice.github.io/apps/iss_photo_explorer_fla... - https://callumprentice.github.io/apps/iss_photo_explorer_fla...

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Some of those are close to what I was thinking might be good for a sequence capture - provide a way to make the start/end of a sequence and then the page generates a bunch of curl commands to grabs them perhaps. Once you have them locally, making a moving would be quite straightforward.

ISS-EOL website[0] provides videos (though the interface is quite... uncomfortable to say the least), and you can get a zipfile with all the images provided, JPEG+EXIF metadata and all. I've been helping a friend do exactly what you said for the last year or so[1], amongst other things.

[0] https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/Videos/CrewEarthObservationsVideos/

[1] https://youtu.be/JfNuRce2FEE

Excellent. Thanks for heads up and I’ll take a look. Especially, thank you for That video. It’s truly spectacular - thank you for sharing.

Great service! All it took to find these less beautiful pictures of Germany was the rough location from google maps entered in the url:

https://callumprentice.github.io/apps/iss_photo_explorer_fla...

It shows why Germans still burn coal in their houses. A lot of closeups of the surface mining of coal outside Cologne.

Umm, no. That brown coal is used for gaining electricity. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagebau_Inden

Yes, these do but there are many coal mines in Germany...

Wonderful.

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