The International Space Station, humanities only space based outpost is captivating at 27,000 km/h, especially the view outside. Knate Myers is the latest videographer to give the ISS photographs the timelapse treatment. producing a remarkable view looking down from heaven.

Produced in the timeless timelapse tradition, with each frame of video beginning life as a high resolution photograph, manually fine-tuned the images are then fed into video editing software, in this case Sony’s Vegas. The source photographs are all publicly available from NASA and have been steadily released over the last 18 months. There is no CGI here at all, these are all photo’s taken from ISS.

Knate Myers video ‘View from the ISS at Night’ is the latest timelapse to make use of the ISS photo’s, by no means the only one. NASA has their own in-house photographer that has produced video’s in the past. Knate has however set the standard for this new genre of space timelapse. With excellent detail and smooth animation backed by an atmospheric sound-track provided by John Murphy, Sunshine (Adagio in D Minor), this is one of the most impressive ISS timelapse videos to date.

View from the ISS at Night from Knate Myers on Vimeo.

Brief glimpses of various space station appendages periodically fill the shot as they labor by, the Earth’s Aurora shines electric green in the background while the star filled sky moves by at an incredible speed.

An amazing view from upon high, sailing through the skies, compressing the incredible into just under 4 minutes of astounding footage. Put your feet up, relax and press the play button, be prepared to go into orbit.

Buddha’s Brother out…