Posted on 12/06/2021 3:03:09 PM PST by MtnClimber
Explanation: What's that unusual spot on the Moon? It's the International Space Station. Using precise timing, the Earth-orbiting space platform was photographed in front of a partially lit gibbous Moon last month. The featured composite, taken from Payson, Arizona, USA last month, was intricately composed by combining, in part, many 1/2000-second images from a video of the ISS crossing the Moon. A close inspection of this unusually crisp ISS silhouette will reveal the outlines of numerous solar panels and trusses. The bright crater Tycho is visible on the upper left, as well as comparatively rough, light colored terrain known as highlands, and relatively smooth, dark colored areas known as maria. On-line tools can tell you when the International Space Station will be visible from your area.
For more detail go to the link and click on the image for a high definition image. You can then move the magnifying glass cursor then click to zoom in and click again to zoom out. When zoomed in you can scan by moving the side bars on the bottom and right side of the image.
It looks a lot like something which would have been called a fake in 1968.
He did a super job obtaining the video and processing that image!
It ain’t no Babylon 5 or Deep Space 9, is it?
Sigh.
We can go to the stars, or we can stay on Earth and fight inequality.
I don’t have an Instagram account, so I don’t know what kind of equipment he used. What matters more is his mastery of his equipment, photographic techniques, and his great eye for processing his images.
Each one stands by itself.
Marvelous
Oh wow!......and imagine what they’re seeing from where they are!
I wonder what it says in Mandarin characters.
The seeing conditions present at the time he activated the record function must have been impressive. I don’t even consider imaging unless conditions are very good to excellent.
Based on a photo at the link, he might have been using an 8” Schmidt Cassegrain as it shows him standing next to one.
And all those things you mentioned are a must.
Having a camera mounted on an 8” Schmidt-Cassegrain would do this with a standard daylight exposure. Somebody knew this was coming, or it was an incredible bit of luck.
The processing of all the images boggles my mind.
That is a deep hobby.
He knew it was coming. There are software programs that will tell you exactly where ISS will be from your exact location. It should not have been too hard for him to determine when ISS intersected with the moon and he likely obtained that data far in advance.
Thank goodness for the pause option when viewing the video. Amazing stuff on close inspection.
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