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Show HN: ISS in Real Time – 25 Years Aboard the International Space Station

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152 points bfeist | 5 comments | 27 Oct 25 14:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.242s | source

Today my collaborator and I are releasing issinrealtime.org, a multimedia project that plays back every day onboard the ISS. Feedback welcomed.

Here's an article that was just released about it: https://www.collectspace.com/news/news-102725a-iss-in-real-t...

I also wrote a "making of" post about it here: https://benfeist.com/posts/iss-in-real-time/

1. callumprentice ◴[28 Oct 25 16:24 UTC] No.45734944[source]▶
https://callumprentice.github.io/apps/iss_photo_explorer/ind...

My daughter and I made this 10 years ago for the NASA Space Apps Challenge and I notified a whole bunch of folk at NASA but never heard anything back. Laughably amateurish compared to this magnificent work but it was fun to make.

We actually started work on the next version - a tool that lets you mark begin/end photo frames from those incredible fly-bys and save them off as video but it's maybe not worth it now.

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2. bfeist ◴[28 Oct 25 19:15 UTC] No.45737526[source]▶
Very cool! Your idea about auto-generating timelapse videos was taken up by NASA. https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/BeyondThePhotography/CrewEarthObser...
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3. dylan604 ◴[28 Oct 25 20:55 UTC] No.45739048[source]▶
I've always found the timelapse videos from ISS much more interesting than from satellites in geosync at least artistically. The angles are more interesting. I love the ones at night where you can see the city lights, the stars in the background, the Kármán line, auroras, and lightning.

One of the first projects I when I was learning how to be a proper hacker by using curl (at least according to certain states) was from NASA images which I would then turn into timelapse videos as well. I used imagery from SOHO to watch the sun on a weekly basis with a cronjob that would run once a week and deliver a video.

4. callumprentice ◴[28 Oct 25 22:36 UTC] No.45740184[source]▶
Wow - that's incredible. I can't wait to take a look. Thanks for the pointer.
5. Kye ◴[28 Oct 25 23:17 UTC] No.45740563[source]▶
Go around them and radio the astronauts on the ISS about it.