NASA astronaut shares timelapse of massive storm Milton from space: Watch viral video
America is facing difficult times, with major storms causing heavy damage to infrastructure and human life. Currently, Hurricane Milton is heading towards the US state of Florida and is expected to cause great damage. In the midst of this, NASA Astronaut Matthew Dominick, currently aboard NASA’s International Space Station (ISS), shared a time-lapse video of Hurricane Milton from the ISS, giving everyone a bird’s-eye view of the Category 5 storm Giant is making landfall in Florida.
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Timelapse of Hurricane Milton from space, from NASA’s ISS
Sharing images of the storm and a similar timeline on X (formerly Twitter), NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick laid out the camera settings needed to capture it from the ISS. The following time lapse was recorded using the following camera settings: exposure 1/6400 s, 14 mm, ISO 500, interval 0.5 s, 30 fps.
“We flew through Hurricane Milton about 90 minutes ago. This is the view out the Dragon Endeavor window. Expect a lot of images from this window, as this is where I’m sleeping while waiting to untether and return to Earth,” said Matthew Dominick.
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Previously, Matthew Dominick shared a stunning time-lapse video of auroras from space
Notably, this is not the first time Matthew Dominick has shared photos and timelapses while on the ISS. Just yesterday, Dominick also shared beautiful images of red and blue auroras.
“The red and green aurora seemed to dance in a time-lapse as we flew by, looking out Dragon Endeavor’s windows with Dragon Freedom’s view,” he said, posting a snippet of the time similar time.
He added: “Yesterday we took a few thousand pictures trying to get the settings, lighting and framing right across multiple orbital nights because the auroras are so amazing due to close solar activity This”.
The settings at which the timelapse video was recorded were: exposure 0.8 seconds, 14mm, ISO 3200, interval 1.6 seconds, 30 fps.
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