NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick establish to the International Space Station ( ISS ) in March as commanding officer of the SpaceX Crew-8 foreign mission .

During his time aboard the orbital outpost , Dominick has been sharing some grand images of both inwardly and outside the ISS .

lancinating photographers will be pleased that the cosmonaut is also sharing the television camera options that he used for each of the shots . A recent one is a real beauty and shows the Sun Myung Moon above Earth just before sunrise .

1/ A splinter of a lunation rises out of noctilucent clouds and appear to look towards the horizon wait the close at hand dawn .

1/250s , f5.6 , ISO 6400 , 170 mm ( 50 to 500 mm lens ) , croppedpic.twitter.com/6vq9NfdXx0

& mdash ; Matthew Dominick ( @dominickmatthew)July 6 , 2024

This creative image from the inside of an ISS module sees Dominick using a flash to experiment with “ clear picture . ”

felicitous 4th of July !

No fireworks on ISS so we used television camera flare instead . experiment with “ light painting ” today .

15 sec , f22 , 24 mm , ISO 500 . Turned off the ignitor . Manually actuated our own flash bulb . Ambient brightness level only from computers and experimentation LEDs .

1/ Floating throughpic.twitter.com/fe8arQh3aJ

& mdash ; Matthew Dominick ( @dominickmatthew)July 4 , 2024

In this set of images , Dominick register how unlike shutter amphetamine can sham how Earth appears in an image .

A common enquiry idea when posting night time images from the ISS is exposure distance . There are guidelines for shooting astrophotography from worldly concern but what happens when shooting at orbital speeds ? Thread shows images with 6400 ISO , f1.4 , and exposure ranging from 10s to 1/4spic.twitter.com/3YNwTeoOX7

& mdash ; Matthew Dominick ( @dominickmatthew)July 1 , 2024

Here ’s a stunning night shot from the ISS showing the Nile River leading to the Mediterranean Sea .

Flying up the Nile River to the Mediterranean Sea .

1/5s , f1.4 , ISO 12800

involve to deduct the morose frame and other processing after . It was awesome to see on such a clear night.pic.twitter.com/fMucJdfw74

& mdash ; Matthew Dominick ( @dominickmatthew)June 30 , 2024

This one shows an cosmonaut peering out of a window on the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft dock at the ISS . Dominick has also been experiment with time - lapsing , which you may watch below .

A scant timelapse made from the case-by-case images need when finding the good light for the image above . faint-hearted blue light from a moon just begin to crest the horizon in front of the ISS illuminates Dragon.pic.twitter.com/QeTJwYSAb3

& mdash ; Matthew Dominick ( @dominickmatthew)June 29 , 2024

Here , Dominick put the tv camera on a monopod and uses a slow 1/5 shutter focal ratio to produce the feeling of movement in an figure of speech break down from inside one of the station ’s many modules .

surge through the lab on ISS.pic.twitter.com/6jzajAyy1E

& mdash ; Matthew Dominick ( @dominickmatthew)June 28 , 2024

This image shows part of the ISS with a striking backdrop of star trail .

Experimenting with long exposures try out to capture superstar trails with the beautiful structures of the ISS . In the last of five 30 second vulnerability the Lord’s Day crack the horizon creating the splendid blue on the service module solar array . 5 heap picture , 24 mm , f4 , ISO 800.pic.twitter.com/eyX92X2CoY

& mdash ; Matthew Dominick ( @dominickmatthew)June 25 , 2024

Finally , check out this howling time - relapsing shooter showing the docked Starliner ballistic capsule with an aurora in the distance .

Timelapse video of aurora cyclosis behind Starliner select from a Dragon windowpane with Butch and Suni in the windowpane of Starliner . Their torch get off up the cabin .

0.5 second musical interval , f 1.4 , 6400 ISO , 1/4 2nd exposure , 24 mm lens.pic.twitter.com/gZuxYZu0Af

& mdash ; Matthew Dominick ( @dominickmatthew)June 16 , 2024

Another past inhabitant of the ISS also make a reputation for taking jaw - dropping photo . French spaceman Thomas Pesquet usually turned his lens toward Earth 250 miles below , capture gorgeous imagesthat absolutely encapsulated the beauty of our planet .