ISS Timelapse - Heading to Chicago at night

I love this video:

source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep9PQEb5-7U

Made by these folks:

Even the music is weirdly appropriate for the night :)

I love how they shout out the important places:

And near the start the lightning strikes

remind me of the Beatles concert at Shea Stadium, all the flashbulbs popping in the grandstands, amazing ! I betcha those snapshots are all in picture albums somewhere :)  You can see the pink light in the middle of this:

It's from a flash bulb.

source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzF1hTWpUWE

I suppose it gets boring for the astronauts, especially since it's a much slower transition in real time but still it must be cool to see.  Semi-obligatory ham / Field Day content: I do remember seeing a spacecraft passing by on a Field Day evening but it must have been Skylab because the ISS wasn't a thing until 1998 - Skylab was more of a 1970s thing.

Here is a closeup of the Door peninsula with the island at the top of the thumb and Green Bay down below:

 

Here is Lake Michigan:

The arm sorta spoils the view but also provides foreground ?   And yes at the end the dawn comes up like thunder at something like 18,000 MPH !

Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm