Ungraded: Stars Over Western Europe and Sahara Desert

4K EARTH'S SPACE ORBIT - DEC 22, 2011 (Ungraded): Stars over Western Europe and the Sahara Desert. Time lapse from unaltered photos taken by astronauts. HighRes NASA JPEGs muxed into PhotoJPEG video without re-encoding and post-processing. This clip retains 100% of original image quality including camera artifacts. ISS flying in Earth's orbit starting northwest of Spain, near the Bay of Biscay, to northern Africa, near the border of Sudan and South Sudan. The main point of focus on this video is the star field above the Earth's atmospheric limb. The video begins over the Bay of Biscay and captures the star field as the ISS travels southeast toward central Africa. (av21522u)