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Incredible Star Trails from the International Space Station - shuttertalk - Jun 11, 2012

Photos from space are usually amazingly pretty on their own, but I thought these star trail photos took beauty to a new level.

http://tinyurl.com/77uhav8

The photos were:

Quote:taken 240 miles up in space by combining multiple 30-second exposure photos, and then stacking them together with imaging software. The resulting “star trail” images, as he calls them, essentially show the paths made by stars and earth lights over 10 to 15 minutes.

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RE: Incredible Star Trails from the International Space Station - Toad - Jun 12, 2012

The story was there, and now is gone...

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RE: Incredible Star Trails from the International Space Station - shuttertalk - Jun 12, 2012

(Jun 12, 2012, 08:25)Toad Wrote:  The story was there, and now is gone...

Thanks - fixed the URL...

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RE: Incredible Star Trails from the International Space Station - Don Schaeffer - Jun 13, 2012

That really is neat!

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RE: Incredible Star Trails from the International Space Station - Toad - Jun 13, 2012

It is pretty cool. Combining many images into a single mega image is one of the hot new trends in photography (i.e. stitching, HDR).

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RE: Incredible Star Trails from the International Space Station - NT73 - Jun 14, 2012

We are wasting a lot of energy on the planet. (And off it with all the cameras and batteries. )

Nice to look at though!

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RE: Incredible Star Trails from the International Space Station - shuttertalk - Jun 26, 2012

Now, look at the man behind the photos, and his huge collection of camera gear in space. I might have missed some but I count at least 9 bodies with attached lenses in the photo...

http://www.onorbit.com/node/4734

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RE: Incredible Star Trails from the International Space Station - Kombisaurus - Jun 27, 2012

wow.. when the cost of launching stuff into space is currently about $22,000* per kilogram, why would someone need so many bodies up there?
Still, I guess there are no Nikon service centers up in space... so you'd need a few spares.

*http://www.howstuffworks.com/space-elevator.htm

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