Very cool
Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth
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Re: Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth
#312Why is spectacular in quotations? I keep seeing this in headlines, is it because they're quoting a single word?
Re: Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth
#313Looking 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...
Yes, the D5s are the 'official' Handheld Universal Lunar Cameras (HULCs), but (a?) Z9 also got on-board at the 'last minute' (which means two years ago): * https://petapixel.com/2026/04/02/a-nikon-z9-made-it-aboard-t... They have a thermal blanket for exterior work: * https://petapixel.com/2026/02/24/artemis-ii-astronauts-will-... * https://petapixel.com/2025/01/10/the-custom-nikon-z9-and-the... * Various stories wit…
as a Hassie lover it made me a bit sad that they went with a D5 but hey, who cares about the camera, the picture was worth a billion bucks and it delivered.
It's so refreshing to be mesmorised by a picture in the age of shorts and reels.
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#315Earlier quoted context omitted.
They're in space so they only sort of need to hold the camera.
Or maybe press the timer and let it float...
Bad idea, shutter speed was 1/4 apparently (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47632457), even the small rotational inertia everything in zero gravity gets from a human "dropping" it would probably be enough to be annoying, you'd get a better shot holding it.
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#316I was trying to figure the country - I think north Africa upside down and Spain https://earth.google.com/web/@3.88879526,-24.75819914,62.068...
Re: Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth
#317Looking 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...
Yes, the D5s are the 'official' Handheld Universal Lunar Cameras (HULCs), but (a?) Z9 also got on-board at the 'last minute' (which means two years ago): * https://petapixel.com/2026/04/02/a-nikon-z9-made-it-aboard-t... They have a thermal blanket for exterior work: * https://petapixel.com/2026/02/24/artemis-ii-astronauts-will-... * https://petapixel.com/2025/01/10/the-custom-nikon-z9-and-the... * Various stories wit…
the morning after the launch i just randomly went onto their livestream and one of the astronauts was asking mission control for help on also using the gopros and iPhone cameras. i guess they have some. and he was struggling at getting a properly exposed photo with those. he said they were coming out super over exposed. but the D5 was working nominally. mission control said they'd get back to them about ideas on adjusting the gopros and iPhones. but it was funny to hear they're trying "new" tech and struggling with it up in space, and that 2005 D5 is still the champ :)
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#318Earlier quoted context omitted.
The photograph appears to show nightime on Earth with just a sliver of daytime. Beyond cities in Iberia and along the coast of Africa, most of what we can see would be reflected light from the Moon? We are just past full moon on April 1.
1/4 exposure time so 250 ms of light. the light is coming from all the light sources in the universe, plus the moon, plus the sun's rays refracting through the atmosphere which happens even at night. The natural blue light is coming from the oxygen in the atmosphere but it's so overwhelming in that spot that it turns the light pure white. The red/orangish is coming from particulates and the green/red from aurora. My…
> the light is coming from all the light sources in the universe, plus the moon
This is true for every photo ever taken
Re: Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth
#319Why is spectacular in quotations? I keep seeing this in headlines, is it because they're quoting a single word?
It's lazy "editorializing"
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#320Very cool. Along the same lines the EPIC::DSCOVR mission has been taking photos of the earth since, I believe, around 2015.