You'll likely catch this image a million times in your various feeds: Earth as seen by Reid Wiseman from Artemis II en-route to the Moon.
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@markmccaughrean the thing that strikes me must is how thin our atmosphere is - it looks like such a fragile thing for something so important for life on earth.
@ccferrie You are arguably experiencing an element of The Overview Effect
And keep in mind that the thin glow you see all around the planet is at about 80km altitude – we struggle above 5km & die above 10km.
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Two planets for the price of one
This screenshot from Celestia is pretty close to the orientation of the #Artemis II picture taken of Earth's nightside.
The stars in the background line up pretty well, & as @Nina_cried suspected, the bright object to the lower-left of Earth is Venus
And as the original shot suggests, the Sun is behind Earth, slightly to the lower-right of centre, hence the bright dayside limb there.
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@cosmos4u @Nina_cried As I said, mine was good enough for (ex-)government work
And a damn sight better than NASA's launch livestream – what a shambles, honestly
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@cosmos4u @Nina_cried As I said, mine was good enough for (ex-)government work
And a damn sight better than NASA's launch livestream – what a shambles, honestly
@markmccaughrean @Nina_cried Oh yes ... several livestreams directed by private space aficionados were way better - like catching SRB sep.
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You'll likely catch this image a million times in your various feeds: Earth as seen by Reid Wiseman from Artemis II en-route to the Moon.
My first thought? That's *really* noisy 🧐
But then I realised – it's the *nightside* of Earth, illuminated by the almost full Moon, not the Sun
The bright limb at lower-right is where the dayside starts, & the fact that you can see aurorae, airglow, & cities in Europe, Africa, & S & N America also gives the game away.
Cool.
@markmccaughrean how much of the ”noise” is satelites?
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@markmccaughrean how much of the ”noise” is satelites?
@whangdoodler None in that picture – the Sun is hidden behind Earth, so there’s nothing bright to light them. Moonlight is far too faint to lead to significant illumination. But the satellites are still there, mostly you know who’s endless cheap wifi routers
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You'll likely catch this image a million times in your various feeds: Earth as seen by Reid Wiseman from Artemis II en-route to the Moon.
My first thought? That's *really* noisy 🧐
But then I realised – it's the *nightside* of Earth, illuminated by the almost full Moon, not the Sun
The bright limb at lower-right is where the dayside starts, & the fact that you can see aurorae, airglow, & cities in Europe, Africa, & S & N America also gives the game away.
Cool.
@markmccaughrean Isn't our world beautiful?
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You'll likely catch this image a million times in your various feeds: Earth as seen by Reid Wiseman from Artemis II en-route to the Moon.
My first thought? That's *really* noisy 🧐
But then I realised – it's the *nightside* of Earth, illuminated by the almost full Moon, not the Sun
The bright limb at lower-right is where the dayside starts, & the fact that you can see aurorae, airglow, & cities in Europe, Africa, & S & N America also gives the game away.
Cool.
Ohhhhh! Something about it was bugging me, but I couldn't say what. "Dark side" was what I was missing.Thanks
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You'll likely catch this image a million times in your various feeds: Earth as seen by Reid Wiseman from Artemis II en-route to the Moon.
My first thought? That's *really* noisy 🧐
But then I realised – it's the *nightside* of Earth, illuminated by the almost full Moon, not the Sun
The bright limb at lower-right is where the dayside starts, & the fact that you can see aurorae, airglow, & cities in Europe, Africa, & S & N America also gives the game away.
Cool.
@markmccaughrean The classic big blue marble
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@markmccaughrean The classic big blue marble
@bouriquet Kind of, but different – it’s the nightside of Earth, so very faintly illuminated by the Moon only, meaning by you can see the aurorae & airglow in shot, which you’d never see on the dayside.
And the perspective is pretty tight, from only 10,000km or so above the surface, just 1.5 Earth radii. That means you see quite a bit less than a full hemisphere as you would from the Moon itself, say
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You'll likely catch this image a million times in your various feeds: Earth as seen by Reid Wiseman from Artemis II en-route to the Moon.
My first thought? That's *really* noisy 🧐
But then I realised – it's the *nightside* of Earth, illuminated by the almost full Moon, not the Sun
The bright limb at lower-right is where the dayside starts, & the fact that you can see aurorae, airglow, & cities in Europe, Africa, & S & N America also gives the game away.
Cool.
@markmccaughrean I also caught that! Cameras have gotten a HELL of a lot better.
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@markmccaughrean I also caught that! Cameras have gotten a HELL of a lot better.
@sysadmin1138 And the D5 is one of the very best cameras around if you feel the need to set the ISO to 51200
It’s famously *not* ISO invariant, & remains pretty clean up to ridiculous settings. -
You'll likely catch this image a million times in your various feeds: Earth as seen by Reid Wiseman from Artemis II en-route to the Moon.
My first thought? That's *really* noisy 🧐
But then I realised – it's the *nightside* of Earth, illuminated by the almost full Moon, not the Sun
The bright limb at lower-right is where the dayside starts, & the fact that you can see aurorae, airglow, & cities in Europe, Africa, & S & N America also gives the game away.
Cool.
There's a collection of lights off-center up & to the right. Is that a reflection?
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There's a collection of lights off-center up & to the right. Is that a reflection?
@darth_hideout My guess is a reflection off the window, some light inside Orion. Doesn’t look like the Moon reflecting off the Atlantic – too sharp & bright.
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@markmccaughrean how much of the ”noise” is satelites?
@whangdoodler @markmccaughrean none, that’s just shot noise.
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@darth_hideout My guess is a reflection off the window, some light inside Orion. Doesn’t look like the Moon reflecting off the Atlantic – too sharp & bright.
Just ran across this in my photos from a recent #StarTrek conversation. In the original cut of "Miri," which featured a rare exact Earth duplicate, a simple globe without annotations was used to convey the point. This was before the 1st Moon landing. I would guess the audience at the time was unused to seeing the Earth from space. Later remasters added clouds. Remarkable how banal the view has become.
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You'll likely catch this image a million times in your various feeds: Earth as seen by Reid Wiseman from Artemis II en-route to the Moon.
My first thought? That's *really* noisy 🧐
But then I realised – it's the *nightside* of Earth, illuminated by the almost full Moon, not the Sun
The bright limb at lower-right is where the dayside starts, & the fact that you can see aurorae, airglow, & cities in Europe, Africa, & S & N America also gives the game away.
Cool.
I was shocked that you could see stars.
Most of the time with daylight images of Earth, it's too bright to see stars.
Unlike others I was guessing the point light source are stars.
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You'll likely catch this image a million times in your various feeds: Earth as seen by Reid Wiseman from Artemis II en-route to the Moon.
My first thought? That's *really* noisy 🧐
But then I realised – it's the *nightside* of Earth, illuminated by the almost full Moon, not the Sun
The bright limb at lower-right is where the dayside starts, & the fact that you can see aurorae, airglow, & cities in Europe, Africa, & S & N America also gives the game away.
Cool.
@markmccaughrean I wonder what this is, just above and to the right of the center. A reflection of the moon in the sea?
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@markmccaughrean I wonder what this is, just above and to the right of the center. A reflection of the moon in the sea?
@edgeofeurope @markmccaughrean Reflection on the inside of the window through which the picture was made?
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@edgeofeurope @markmccaughrean Reflection on the inside of the window through which the picture was made?
@PepijnVemer @markmccaughrean Too lazy to open it a moment to get a better shot huh...
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