So a few minutes ago I was checking out where the International Space Station was and noticed it was going to fly over Australia, so I waited and took a few screenshots of the live feed figuring it'd be f***ing cool looking back at your country from space in real-time.

They did some zooming in on one patch of land when it was either over Australia or over the ocean just north-east of it. It looks suspiciously like Brisbane but the angle seems wrong for a fly-by EAST of Brisbane.

I was hoping someone with an intimate geographical knowledge of Brisbane and Stradbroke could provide an insight as to whether this is Brisbane or not. The bright sand-patches on the islands match Stradbroke Island pretty well. If it's not Brisbane, the only alternative is some patch of land in islands North-East of Australia.

Here are all the images:

Inland a bit:

http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~boldajis/images/iss_closeup2.jpg

Slightly to the left of previous image:

http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~boldajis/images/iss_closeup.jpg

Google's satellite images for comparison:

http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~boldajis/images/wiki_map.jpg

Trajectory of ISS a few minutes before I took the shots:>

http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~boldajis/images/iss_tracking.jpg

You can click and browse Google's maps in a browser without needing to download Google Earth:

http://wikimapia.org/#y=-27398594&x=153525696&z=10&l=0&m=s&v=2

Any help or answers are welcome :)

sure looks like moreton and nth stradbroke to me

How do I track the station???

what jim saids

How do I track the station???

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/tracking/

There's going to be a visible fly-over in the morning of Dec 21 (Click "Sighting opportunities"). It will only be a moving dot from our view, but cool nonetheless :P

It's about to do another daytime flyover right now (by about 2.20-25 I reckon).

You can't see it looking up, but you can look down from shuttle cam. Hopefully they'll give us a view:

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/

do nasa not get enough money that they need to spam their site with yahoo ads??

So on this second flyby I figured I'd check out the latest BoM cloud images to see if I could point out specific clouds as the ISS was flying over South Australia:

http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~boldajis/images/iss1_bom.jpg

http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~boldajis/images/iss1_sa.jpg

yeah it looks a pretty good match, but according to that satellite path, it went no where near moreton bay.

If you watch the educational feed they say where it is going over? earlier some chick said the coast of south australia

but keep googling and s*** to find aliens

yeah true about the path

are there aliens on teh google?

Mmmmm it's moving at 27716km/h and steadily dropping.
Fark it moves fast across the globe.
Would be cool to be up there for about, I dunno an hour till I got bored of watching the planet go round and round :P

[edit]It just picked up speed again, go son.

Ok after messing around with Google Earth, I believe it was indeed Brisbane:

http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~boldajis/images/gearth_bris.jpg http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~boldajis/images/iss_bris.jpg

Still, it doesn't match the tracking path of the nasa page. Maybe the Earth rotated?

http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/4042/image1by3.jpg