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Things that make life worth living → Our Galaxy
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AMAZING time-lapse photography by John Eklund
Stunning Star Trail Photographs from International Space Station
NASA astronaut Don Pettit recently uploaded a gallery of photos to the Johnson Space Center’s Flickr page. Pettit on how he captured these amazing images:
“My star trail images are made by taking a time exposure of about 10 to 15 minutes. However, with modern digital cameras, 30 seconds is about the longest exposure possible, due to electronic detector noise effectively snowing out the image. To achieve the longer exposures I do what many amateur astronomers do. I take multiple 30-second exposures, the ‘stack’ them using imaging software, thus producing the longer exposure.”
Ed note: Here are the Hubble Space Telescope’s finest photos.
h/t Twisted Sifter
Here’s a little fun fact for you Mass Effect fans out there: did you know that many of the places you can travel to in the Normandy are based off of actual locations in our galaxy? Obviously, everyone knows that the system Sol within the Local Cluster is an exact copy of our Solar System.
But here’s a few that you might not know about!
