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Posted on 07/18/2025 12:36:27 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: This month, bright planet Saturn rises in evening skies, its rings oriented nearly edge-on when viewed from planet Earth. And in the early morning hours on July 6, it posed very briefly with the International Space Station when viewed from a location in Federal Way, Washington, USA. This well-planned image, a stack of video frames, captures their momentary conjunction in the same telescopic field of view. With the ISS in low Earth orbit, space station and gas giant planet were separated by almost 1.4 billion kilometers. Their apparent sizes are comparable but the ISS was much brighter than Saturn and the ringed planet's brightness has been increased for visibility in the stacked image. Precise timing and an exact location were needed to capture the ISS/Saturn conjunction.
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We have a beautiful solar system an amazing galaxy and a awe inspiring universe.
If I was never born does it even exist?
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No it doesn't. It is all an illusion.
That it’s an illusion is the illusion!
That’s very cool. Thanks.
My 15 year old grandson will love that.
That is impressive. I don’t know what a a stack of video frames is but they did a good job.
NASA can’t even get the iss in focus?
The video frames (like old 8mm film frames) are digitally “stacked” on top of one another, like making a sandwich, by a computer, for more detail. The computer picks the sharpest frames and combines them into one image.
How do you take them all at the same moment I guess is what I can’t figure out
Amazing shot.
Just finding Satrun and holding a steady image is a task
If the universe only exists in my mind, I’m a lot smarter than I thought.
... if you think so, ...
They aren’t all taken exactly at the same moment, but close. The camera I have is capable of shooting video at a rate of over 136 frames per second for as long as desired. Then the computer uses specialised software to sort and stack the total number of frames into the sharpest picture possible, with optional changes in the settings built into the software.
Thanks
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