Shuttle-ISS Photos

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Well we finally have some of the photos that were taken from a departing Russian craft while Endeavor was docked with the ISS, which was kind of a one off opportunity. Obviously they're edited, next to impossible to get exposure right on both the Earth and the station but the results are simply amazing:

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More here :)
 
Bloody brilliant.
 
I think you'd have been better with a step to the left with the first and your horizons off in the last:D;) Love them really:)
 
Musicman said:
Sure that's true? Everything's in full sunlight.

Sunny 16 rule applies :)
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Yes, because since the station is largely white and a lot closer it appears brighter than the Earth. Hence why a lot of footage/shots of it look overexposed, eg:

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Even when the Earth is perfectly visible (2:00+). Apart from when it goes into the station's shadow, where the station is exposed properly but the Earth is overexposed :)
 
Superewza said:
Yes, because since the station is largely white and a lot closer it appears brighter than the Earth. Hence why a lot of footage/shots of it look overexposed, eg:
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That doesn't make much sense to me. With all the cloud on it, the Earth has quite a high albedo too. Just because it's a few hundred km away, it doesn't make it any less white, especially in a vacuum.

It's surely just a question of exposing for the highlights?

Superewza said:
Even when the Earth is perfectly visible (2:00+). Apart from when it goes into the station's shadow, where the station is exposed properly but the Earth is overexposed :)
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I have to say, everything in that footage looks over exposed to me, not just the ISS.
 
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High but not the same. The light reflecting off the clouds has several layers of atmosphere to get through before it can get to the camera, a lot of it reflects back down to the ground.

And yes, everything in that footage may be overexposed, but there's no denying that it's always one more than the other, never equally overexposed.
 
Anyway, interesting tidbit for you - these pictures were taken by Paolo Nespoli on a Nikon D3-x that was jettisoned on the Soyuz orbital module before reentry. Some would say that was a crime ;)
 
I love the fact that you can see the ISS from the ground, it might only be a very bright white object moving through the sky but I still love seeing it when it passes overhead.
 
DavidBloor said:
I love the fact that you can see the ISS from the ground, it might only be a very bright white object moving through the sky but I still love seeing it when it passes overhead.
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Somebody (i'm sure they won't mind me linking) managed to capture this earlier on in the mission:



I have no words...
 
Some of the best images of the spacestation yet, no doubt we will be seeing that one a lot in future on publications of the shuttles lifespan etc
 
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