(meteorobs) Perseid pic from space

[dfischer at astro.uni-bonn.de]

> Also, if you look at the earth below, it appears to be cloudy. And
> daytime.

Nope, this is moonlight on the clouds! You can read out the meta-data of
the image and see that it's a 1-second exposure at f/2.8 at ISO 6400,taken
at 19:17 (UTC, I'm being told by an ISS photography expert) on August 13 -
see
http://skyweek.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/ein-heller-perseid-von-der-iss-aus-gesehen
(which also links to several other meteor images and even a video of
meteors taken from orbit in the past 15 years).

Dan