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Incredible Star Trails from the International Space Station
#1

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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#2

The story was there, and now is gone...
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#3

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

Thanks - fixed the URL...
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#4

That really is neat!

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#5

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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#6

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

Nice to look at though!

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#7

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... Big Grin

http://www.onorbit.com/node/4734
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#8

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. Big Grin

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

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