During Expedition 72 to the ISS I spent a lot of time photographing the stars. This one image shows the Milky Way, Zodical light, Starlink satellites as streaks, stars as points, atmosphere on edge showing OH emission as burned umber (my favorite Crayon color), faint red upper f-region, soon to rise sun, and cities at night as streaks lit by the nearly full moon.
Nikon Z9, Sigma 14mm f1.4 lens, 15 seconds, f1.4, ISO 3200, adjusted Photoshop, levels, contrast, gamma, color, with homemade orbital sidereal drive to compensate for orbital pitch rate (4 degrees/sec).
More photos from space on my Instagram and twitter account, astro_pettit.
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that’s absolutely gorgeous! might i ask, are the tiny black dots cosmic ray interference? i read one of Tim Peake’s books and he mentioned something about how cosmic rays and high-energy particles can generate photo interference. was a few years ago though so i’m not 100% certain
hoping to go to space some day, though i’m not exactly PhD material 😀
That’s cool
Oh my god I hate this 25 characters limit
I hope to go to space one day. Such an amazing photo
that is some motion blur. How did you keep the stars in the same relative position when you and/or the earth are traveling so fast?
When I first saw our orange ball core looking for Halley’s Comet in 1986
Tears flowed down my cheeks
Thanks Don Pettit, for spreading the joy and wonder. NASA rocks.
That’s a great click. Is it available somewhere to download as a hi-res wallpaper?
Is it true that they really do have milk there?
Incredible. If I saw that in person, I don’t think I would ever be the same again. I hope you didn’t take a single second for granted.