Put a camera on a tripod, point at a dark starry sky, and hold the shutter open for about 10 minutes, and the image will show stars as circular arcs. But what happens if you do it in space? In 2012, Donald Roy Pettit, better known as Don Pettit, did just that, and made beautiful images from the International Space Station.
ISS Star Trails
From these images, Christoph Malin, created a spectacular video. It’s from 2012, and shows star trail time-lapses. In 2013, he made a documentary about it, starring Don Pettit.
ISS Startrails – TRONized
The ISS Image Frontier – “Making the invisible visible” – extended 25 Minute Version
