  The ILAN-ES (Imaging of Lightning And Nocturnal Emissions from Space)
experiment was conducted by Israeli astronaut Eytan Stibbe in April 2022 as
part of the Axiom Space company AX-1 private mission to the International Space
Station, in the framework of Rakia, a set of experiments selected for flight by
the Ramon Foundation and the Israeli Space Agency. The mission objective was to
manually record lightning and transient luminous events from the Cupola window
in the ISS, based on preliminary thunderstorm forecasts uploaded to the crew
24-36 hours in advance. A Nikon D6 camera with a 50 mm lens was used, in a
video mode of 60 frames per second. During the 15-day mission, 82 different
targets were uploaded to the ISS of which 20 were imaged by the astronauts,
yielding a total harvest of 45 TLEs: sprites, Elves and Blue Corona Discharges.
The methodology and execution by the ISS astronauts are described and
recommendation for future observations by on-board human-operated instruments
on the ISS are given
