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Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth

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Re: Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth

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sandworm101 wrote: post #76
jgrahamc wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is no point engaging in any way with people who believe in such "theories". They are like trolls, the only way to deal with them is not at all. Don't engage, don't disagree, just nothing, total silence. One can choose to be a wilful edit and waste your life and time on complete bullshit, but the rest of us should just ignore those people completely.

Ya, but eventually they all wind up wearing furs and carrying spears as they storm the gates of some government building. Its all good fun until people start to die. We laugh as soveriegn citizens are yanked from thier cars. Harder to watch are the vids of them pulling guns on police. Conspiracy theorists need to be kept in check. Disengagment is easy but it doesnt help.

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Re: Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth

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Post by ourmandave »

porphyra wrote: post #120
hannesfur wrote: post #73

Looking at the EXIF (with exiftool) for the image uploaded by NASA ( https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/art002e00019... ), apparently this was taken by a Nikon D5 with an AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8G ED and developed with Lightroom. It also seems like very little was done in Lightroom. Amazing... I dumped the whole EXIF here: https://gist.github.com/umgefahren/a6f555e6588a98adb74eed79d...

I'd have probably shot it wide open at f/2.8 rather than cranking the ISO up to 51200. Incredibly impressed at the steady hands for a sharp image at 1/4 s shutter speed though! Maybe they just let the camera float in space with the mirror up, triggering it remotely.

You can get a D5 on amazon.com. It would be amazing if one of the astronauts did a review explaining how it performs in space.

Re: Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth

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Post by saint_yossarian »

dylan604 wrote: post #55
NitpickLawyer wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> This is all CG. Reminds me of the classic - It is true that Spielberg filmed the moon landings, but he was such a perfectionist that he wanted to shoot on location.

ahem, Kubrik

Kubrick, even.

Re: Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth

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Post by thaumasiotes »

Sharlin wrote: post #11

I was confused when I first saw this photo, as I don't think I've ever before seen a nightside, moonlit Earth, exposed so that it looks like the dayside at a first glance. I wonder how many casual viewers actually realize it's the night side. A nice demonstration of how moonlight is pretty much exactly like sunlight, just much much dimmer. In particular it has the same color, even though moonlight is often thought of…

> even though moonlight is often thought of as bluish and sunlight as yellowish!

Is that... true? Sunlight is seen as yellow, of course, but the moon is usually thought of as white.

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Post by brudgers »

hannesfur wrote: post #73

Looking at the EXIF (with exiftool) for the image uploaded by NASA ( https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/art002e00019... ), apparently this was taken by a Nikon D5 with an AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8G ED and developed with Lightroom. It also seems like very little was done in Lightroom. Amazing... I dumped the whole EXIF here: https://gist.github.com/umgefahren/a6f555e6588a98adb74eed79d...

It also seems like very little was done in Lightroom.

This is consistent with good photographic technique that prioritizes "getting it right in the camera."

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Post by saint_yossarian »

suzzer99 wrote: post #137

Where's Antarctica?

Just behind the horizon somewhere on the top right, or maybe some of those clouds are already it.

You can see for yourself in Google Maps if you enable the globe view, unfortunately it seems I can't share a direct link.

Re: Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth

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Post by nomilk »

Sharlin wrote: post #11

I was confused when I first saw this photo, as I don't think I've ever before seen a nightside, moonlit Earth, exposed so that it looks like the dayside at a first glance. I wonder how many casual viewers actually realize it's the night side. A nice demonstration of how moonlight is pretty much exactly like sunlight, just much much dimmer. In particular it has the same color, even though moonlight is often thought of…

Thanks. Until you pointed out it's Earth at night, I had no clue what was supposed to be special about this photo (it appeared suspiciously pixelated for something 'high res', and neighbouring pixels seemed to contrast in colour rather than smoothly complementing as most photos do - but I guess that's random patches of city lights being captured by the camera). Cool stuff!

Something I haven't figured out is: what is that yellow/whitish smudge toward the center of the earth? It looks like camera glare or a reflection?

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