Stunning Star Trail Photographs from International Space StationNASA astronaut Don Pettit recently uploaded a gallery of photos to the Johnson Space Center’s Flickr page. Pettit on how he captured these amazing images:
“My star trail images are made by taking a time exposure of about 10 to 15 minutes. However, with modern digital cameras, 30 seconds is about the longest exposure possible, due to electronic detector noise effectively snowing out the image. To achieve the longer exposures I do what many amateur astronomers do. I take multiple 30-second exposures, the ‘stack’ them using imaging software, thus producing the longer exposure.”
Ed note: Here are the Hubble Space Telescope’s finest photos.
h/t Twisted Sifter
things like this inspire me. The fact that we’re in space, that human beings are in the most dangerous situation of all time, that it’s taken every piece of imagination we could come up with to get them there and that we can use that to create beautiful and stunning art work is truly inspiring.
People are so quick to run our own species down, call us all ass holes, say the majority of the earth is this or that and then I see things like this and I remember our potential and that the truth is… one day, we’ll go further.
