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Re: Astrophotographer snaps skydiver falling in front of the sun

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Post by Zanni »

schiffern wrote: post #51
dylan604 wrote: post #48

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> Makes you wonder what other similar ideas are out there! There are examples of planes silhouetting the sun or moon. There are examples of the ISS. There are examples of planets (Mercury/Venus) crossing the sun, not the moon (obviously). I think someone else mentioned rockets being captured too. People have also done similar with the moons of other planets. And of course that's how exoplanets have been discovered by…

FYI some of those amazing shots were also taken by Andrew McCarthy. https://x.com/AJamesMcCarthy/status/1611128761776492544/ https://x.com/AJamesMcCarthy/status/1479541092693381120/ https://x.com/AJamesMcCarthy/status/1837219848478412935/ https://x.com/AJamesMcCarthy/status/1968658340679921925/

That lost shot (Falcon 9 transiting the sun) is my favorite. I've got a print of it in my office, waiting to be hung on the wall.

Re: Astrophotographer snaps skydiver falling in front of the sun

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Post by Zanni »

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I get the whole scarcity thing -- and I've even asked Andrew about this -- because if I'm willing to give him my money after saving up for it, but it sells out first, wouldn't he make more money if he took mine then? But, I guess we just have to have an art budget with some money already set aside if we want to jump on opportunities when artists do this. I respect it, but yes it's a bit inconvenient. PS. The full, un…

If I were him I would put out a limited edition at a fixed price like he currently does, but then add $X0? $X00? cumulatively to the price of each additional unit sold.

Peter Lik has a strategy sort of like this. It's still a limited edition of, say, 100, but the price increases as the edition sells out. The last print to sell may be 100x or more the first.

Re: Astrophotographer snaps skydiver falling in front of the sun

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Post by wizzwizz4 »

squigz wrote: post #40
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I think we probably need to go the other way, a comment or article needs a ‘faceId’ check before submission to get human stamp. Of course that brings a whole another set of problems.

That sort of thing is trivial to bypass and is a massive privacy violation.

It's only a massive privacy violation for honest folk!

Re: Astrophotographer snaps skydiver falling in front of the sun

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Post by wizzwizz4 »

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Kagi just launched an AI flagging feature. This is something HN needs. I don’t mind AI content. But I’m not going to read it carefully before commenting, and will double check it with real sources before changing my mind about anything.

HN can't even get it's web front end out of the 90s or meet basic accessibility standards.

And yet, HN is one of the few sites that works (near-)perfectly in Lynx.

Re: Astrophotographer snaps skydiver falling in front of the sun

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Post by nullhole »

mxfh wrote: post #73
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I had an idea for survey planes once. During calibration, they fly grid patterns, basically like a hashmark (#), to get overlapping data for comparison. Doing that kind of flight at night (makes sense for lidar! not so much for photo..), against a clear sky with at least some stars, and stacking the resulting photos, would give you a grid pattern of green/red/white aircraft running lights in front of the heavens.

The overlapping pattern is! the flight pattern. The overlap is not some calibration artifact, it is the product for any sort of stereo evaluation.

That is the flight pattern used on calibration flights, which are used to generate the internal/external calibration values for the camera / laser installation.

Standard wide area ortho photo collection can be done with a series of parallel lines, as long as there's enough forelap/sidelap between photos. Same for standard wide area lidar collection.

Re: Astrophotographer snaps skydiver falling in front of the sun

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Post by dredmorbius »

notahacker wrote: post #72
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Kagi just launched an AI flagging feature. This is something HN needs. I don’t mind AI content. But I’m not going to read it carefully before commenting, and will double check it with real sources before changing my mind about anything.

Speaking of real sources, the photographer discusses how it was taken and and answers questions on Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/spaceporn/comments/1ow9mys/the_most...

For us Old fans: https://old.reddit.com/r/spaceporn/comments/1ow9mys/the_most...>

Re: Astrophotographer snaps skydiver falling in front of the sun

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Post by jeanlucas »

cosmic_ape wrote: post #88
jeanlucas wrote: post #84

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the novelty, you didn't do or think of that before. It was well executed and novelty. You can't do it, you also didn't think of it before. What value are you adding?

This isn't about me though, no point in making this personal. I'm just trying to understand what's interesting about this picture. You are saying that just because nobody took that particular combination before, it is enough of a reason, right?

What is interesting is the novelty on itself, but you already refused to understand that. You can't force someone to understand what they refuse because they think there's something else.
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