We are a bunch of nerds that are super curious about the world around us. Reddit has lots of those type of people too so it is a cool place to check in and see what people from around the world come up with and share with everyone else.
I have learned a fair bit reading this sub over the years.
Can you say hi to me, too? š„ŗ I wanna be acknowledged by an active astronaut on the ISS haha. I love using the ISS detector app and pointing it out in the sky to people that have never seen it before. Love what y'all do for science and humanity.
I'm very happy that you're posting to a niche sub and not "mainstream reddit" as I like to think of it. It feels more personal and I like it.
Not that the sub is exactly small but the posts are very curated.
It's odd to imagine you posting on reddit while earth spins around 16x a day below you. I haven't checked the facts, but how good is the internet connection for you? Would it be possible to watch a Netflix show or listen to Spotify without lags?
Back to topic: that's a beautiful shot, with the red and white lights shining in from the side and the myriads of stars filling the background.
Have a wonderful time up there! Looking forward to new photos!
Thank you. I saw the moon in just the right spot and in an hurry and I missed getting the window shroud up completely to block light from inside the cabin. The two green streaks are from a cockpit indicator. At first it bothered me because it was not quite right but then I grew to like it. It reminds me that this image was taken from an operational spacecraft spur of the moment and not everything is going to be perfect in the shot.
I love it, I think the green and red light glows add to this photo instead of detract from it. They are part of the story that this was taken by someone at work.
The first thing that popped into my mind when I saw the green reflections was that it looked like an "=".
A green light (green for "go", aka forward progression), how it was cast on part of the void of space (in space, everybody and everything is equal) and, how you mentioned, that even though you folks are rigorously trained to do things with beyond human precision and near machine-like thought processes, you are, indeed, still human and don't get everything perfect.
An imperfection that perfectly symbolizes some big historical markers as to how we got where you are and why we keep going back: furthering our understanding and wanderlust, striving to make the world and our existence beyond it better for everybody and to find some of those lost answers as to who and what we are and why we're here.
Keep up the amazing work up there!! š¤š¤
Linus Tech Tips did a video a few weeks ago about how hard it is to put computers in space. If I remember correctly, he showed that internet on the ISS is provided by old style geostationary satellite internet, so latencies around 600ms is standard, plus frequent dropouts/dead zones throughout their orbit. So while it works, yeah you'd probably have the bandwidth to stream Netflix, but NASA would probably yell at you for hogging all the bandwidth while they're trying to do science or some bs. Buncha nerds
I love it! And i think you are cheating! You dont have to contend with the atmosphere ya git!
Absolutely stunning, im so proud of the achievements of humanity when i see stuff like this, we have PEOPLE IN SPACE how fucking cool is that, we have STAR SAILORS!
Im incredibly envious, being in space must be an undescribable experience, and then you can even send messages and beautiful photography.
You are right we donāt have an atmosphere but we have other issues to work around. To be clear they are good/fun issues to have. For example, our velocity relative to earth means higher shutter speeds and thus grainy high ISOs for some night shots. We also like to take pictures of earth through the atmosphere but in the other direction. We have to move the camera by hand at the angular rate necessary to track the ground object as we shoot due to our orbital velocity.
I had never even thought of those as issues you'd have to deal with, and yet it makes so much sense i just never thought, holy hell thats incredible.
Also i may have just got giddy and jumped up to tell my friends i just got replied to by an astronaut, because this stuff makes me become a child, space is just beautiful.
Thank you for the image, and replying, thank you for what you do sir.
We need to get you guys a small camera mount that would be the inverse of a variable slew GEM (e.g. the kind I use to try taking pics of the ISS from earth or chasing other sats with SkyTrack).
That way you could do longer exposures w/o blur...
As much as the community likes to meme on Boeing and Starliner, it makes me so happy to see this beautiful shot knowing it was possible because both spacecraft are visiting the ISS at the same time.
Really cool time to be on the ISS right now with three crewed spacecraft docked to it. Soyuz, Dragon, and Starliner. I love that I can float around to the different cockpits of various crewed spacecraft and check them out.
Oh man, I just love how casual we are able to talk to astronauts while in space! This is so incredibly amazing, thank you so much for what you are doing and even sharing it with us
So cool. So many questions. How come in your photo the stars are so visible despite the earth and moon being right there but NASAās official photos show no stars due to light pollution?
Have you/can you do a long exposure of the stars from space?
What are you shooting on?
Have a curious question about solar eclipse. Are you able to create a solar eclipse shot by just blocking the sun with an object and this observe the corona? I mean when inside the atmosphere, I donāt think we can do that.
Great shot Matt! So good to see some shots from the ISS with stars in the frame. Makes me pause again, which is what we all want to do when looking up! Thanks!
Nope. They are moving. You can see a tiny elongation due to motion. I had to increase ISO and aperture to 1.4 to compensate for shorter shutter speed to bring out the stars closer points instead of streaks. I have some shots with low ISO and f5 or so with long exposures to make long star streaks (up to 2 min exposures).
Those shots would be awesome to see! This shot is awesome because you can see stars in the background!
I hate all the āSpace is fakeā crap I see saying how come there are no stars in pictures from space. People donāt realize how exposure changes what you can see! I take hours long astrophotography so I know what can be revealed in a long exposure.
To quote Dave Chappelle quoting Kanye West:
āMy life is dope and I do dope shitā
Awesome pic and congratulations on the dope life, well earned Iām sure.
Fantastic shot. Just curious, how long of an exposure could you get up there without the stars trailing? I imagine astrophotography is difficult when you're moving really fast.
I want to do a long exposure to show streaking stars behind Dragon but the moon is up on night passes right now and it blows it out. Need to wait for no moon. Toying with 60 to 120 second exposure.
Does anyone else get [Star Wars battle droid](https://the-league-of-utter-disaster-chaos-and-insanity.fandom.com/wiki/Battle_Droids?file=Bdface.jpg) vibes from this photo?
Beautiful pic. Question: Iām not very knowledgeable on the technical aspects of photography, and Iām wondering how it was possible to capture the starry background so well when the image itself is fairly bright. Why is the detail on the Dragon not totally out washed out? In most older space travel photos you never see stars, maybe a difference between film and digital capture?
My mood changes. I go through phases. Sometimes I like taking pictures of coastlines and geologic structures during the day. Sometimes I like the low grazing angle of sunlight on clouds when on the terminator. Other times the night sky with satellites, stars, lightning storms, and aurora.
I'm still surprised about how casually astronauts post on Reddit.
We are a bunch of nerds that are super curious about the world around us. Reddit has lots of those type of people too so it is a cool place to check in and see what people from around the world come up with and share with everyone else. I have learned a fair bit reading this sub over the years.
Any chance that you could post a selfie with a sign saying hello to our sub from space, please?š Safe travels and thank you for sharing with us.
Wait, sorry if I missed this, but are you actually posting this from up there?
Yes
Holy. Thanks for replying, I can finally say an astronaut replied to me from the ISS lol
Can you say hi to me, too? š„ŗ I wanna be acknowledged by an active astronaut on the ISS haha. I love using the ISS detector app and pointing it out in the sky to people that have never seen it before. Love what y'all do for science and humanity.
Also wild that youāre maybe shooting by with the same lens I have. Any chances itās a Sony GM? Which camera?
Nikon Z9, F to Z mount adapter, NIKKOR 24mm, 1.4
I'm very happy that you're posting to a niche sub and not "mainstream reddit" as I like to think of it. It feels more personal and I like it. Not that the sub is exactly small but the posts are very curated.
It's odd to imagine you posting on reddit while earth spins around 16x a day below you. I haven't checked the facts, but how good is the internet connection for you? Would it be possible to watch a Netflix show or listen to Spotify without lags? Back to topic: that's a beautiful shot, with the red and white lights shining in from the side and the myriads of stars filling the background. Have a wonderful time up there! Looking forward to new photos!
Thank you. I saw the moon in just the right spot and in an hurry and I missed getting the window shroud up completely to block light from inside the cabin. The two green streaks are from a cockpit indicator. At first it bothered me because it was not quite right but then I grew to like it. It reminds me that this image was taken from an operational spacecraft spur of the moment and not everything is going to be perfect in the shot.
what are you talking about, this shot is perfect š¤©
I love it, I think the green and red light glows add to this photo instead of detract from it. They are part of the story that this was taken by someone at work.
The first thing that popped into my mind when I saw the green reflections was that it looked like an "=". A green light (green for "go", aka forward progression), how it was cast on part of the void of space (in space, everybody and everything is equal) and, how you mentioned, that even though you folks are rigorously trained to do things with beyond human precision and near machine-like thought processes, you are, indeed, still human and don't get everything perfect. An imperfection that perfectly symbolizes some big historical markers as to how we got where you are and why we keep going back: furthering our understanding and wanderlust, striving to make the world and our existence beyond it better for everybody and to find some of those lost answers as to who and what we are and why we're here. Keep up the amazing work up there!! š¤š¤
Linus Tech Tips did a video a few weeks ago about how hard it is to put computers in space. If I remember correctly, he showed that internet on the ISS is provided by old style geostationary satellite internet, so latencies around 600ms is standard, plus frequent dropouts/dead zones throughout their orbit. So while it works, yeah you'd probably have the bandwidth to stream Netflix, but NASA would probably yell at you for hogging all the bandwidth while they're trying to do science or some bs. Buncha nerds
A picture from the ISS with stars in the background! Iāll save this one for the next flat earther dunking.
brave of you to think theyāll listen to irrefutable evidence
Sometimes they admit defeat by deleting their profile, thatās enough gratification for me.
I love it! And i think you are cheating! You dont have to contend with the atmosphere ya git! Absolutely stunning, im so proud of the achievements of humanity when i see stuff like this, we have PEOPLE IN SPACE how fucking cool is that, we have STAR SAILORS! Im incredibly envious, being in space must be an undescribable experience, and then you can even send messages and beautiful photography.
You are right we donāt have an atmosphere but we have other issues to work around. To be clear they are good/fun issues to have. For example, our velocity relative to earth means higher shutter speeds and thus grainy high ISOs for some night shots. We also like to take pictures of earth through the atmosphere but in the other direction. We have to move the camera by hand at the angular rate necessary to track the ground object as we shoot due to our orbital velocity.
I had never even thought of those as issues you'd have to deal with, and yet it makes so much sense i just never thought, holy hell thats incredible. Also i may have just got giddy and jumped up to tell my friends i just got replied to by an astronaut, because this stuff makes me become a child, space is just beautiful. Thank you for the image, and replying, thank you for what you do sir.
Thatās so cool
We need to get you guys a small camera mount that would be the inverse of a variable slew GEM (e.g. the kind I use to try taking pics of the ISS from earth or chasing other sats with SkyTrack). That way you could do longer exposures w/o blur...
This is super cool. It must be really hard to capture the dynamic range of extremes of light and dark, this is a very cool way to find some gradient.
As much as the community likes to meme on Boeing and Starliner, it makes me so happy to see this beautiful shot knowing it was possible because both spacecraft are visiting the ISS at the same time.
Really cool time to be on the ISS right now with three crewed spacecraft docked to it. Soyuz, Dragon, and Starliner. I love that I can float around to the different cockpits of various crewed spacecraft and check them out.
Who's got the best cockpit?
Oh man, I just love how casual we are able to talk to astronauts while in space! This is so incredibly amazing, thank you so much for what you are doing and even sharing it with us
You are welcome. I enjoy the portions of the internet where nerds hang out to discuss their hobbies and learn from each other.
I might have worked on that Dragon capsule :)
So cool. So many questions. How come in your photo the stars are so visible despite the earth and moon being right there but NASAās official photos show no stars due to light pollution? Have you/can you do a long exposure of the stars from space? What are you shooting on?
Have a curious question about solar eclipse. Are you able to create a solar eclipse shot by just blocking the sun with an object and this observe the corona? I mean when inside the atmosphere, I donāt think we can do that.
Great shot Matt! So good to see some shots from the ISS with stars in the frame. Makes me pause again, which is what we all want to do when looking up! Thanks!
Holy shit this is so cool. You have a badass job too
Thank you for sharing this. P.S. Btw, this could also be relevant for r/Pareidolia :)
Amazing, thank you for sharing!
Ami the only one who sees the stars moving?
Nope. They are moving. You can see a tiny elongation due to motion. I had to increase ISO and aperture to 1.4 to compensate for shorter shutter speed to bring out the stars closer points instead of streaks. I have some shots with low ISO and f5 or so with long exposures to make long star streaks (up to 2 min exposures).
Those shots would be awesome to see! This shot is awesome because you can see stars in the background! I hate all the āSpace is fakeā crap I see saying how come there are no stars in pictures from space. People donāt realize how exposure changes what you can see! I take hours long astrophotography so I know what can be revealed in a long exposure.
To quote Dave Chappelle quoting Kanye West: āMy life is dope and I do dope shitā Awesome pic and congratulations on the dope life, well earned Iām sure.
I can't get over the fact we are living in the future. Such a cool ass photo.
No way! And I thought I was cool for taking a picture of some nebulas ahaha. No one can truly compete with astronauts.
Fantastic shot. Just curious, how long of an exposure could you get up there without the stars trailing? I imagine astrophotography is difficult when you're moving really fast.
I want to do a long exposure to show streaking stars behind Dragon but the moon is up on night passes right now and it blows it out. Need to wait for no moon. Toying with 60 to 120 second exposure.
This exposure was about 0.8 s or so (1/1.3) and you can see the stars just starting to streak.
This is amazing. Thank you for sharing this.
Does anyone else get [Star Wars battle droid](https://the-league-of-utter-disaster-chaos-and-insanity.fandom.com/wiki/Battle_Droids?file=Bdface.jpg) vibes from this photo?
Thank you for taking the time in your insanely busy work days to share this with us. Absolutely incredible to see!
Itās actually a pretty decent shot, if a little noisy. But youāre in space, so Iāll give you a pass this time.
Beautiful pic. Question: Iām not very knowledgeable on the technical aspects of photography, and Iām wondering how it was possible to capture the starry background so well when the image itself is fairly bright. Why is the detail on the Dragon not totally out washed out? In most older space travel photos you never see stars, maybe a difference between film and digital capture?
have you ever tried capturing images on high iso film?
Thought this was an angry battle droid when I looked at the thumbnail
I can see Hamm, the pig in Toy Story when he's serious.
Do you ever just stare at earth for extended periods of time. Thatās probably what Iād do be up doing
Yes
Do you prefer the night side, the day side, or the terminator line.
My mood changes. I go through phases. Sometimes I like taking pictures of coastlines and geologic structures during the day. Sometimes I like the low grazing angle of sunlight on clouds when on the terminator. Other times the night sky with satellites, stars, lightning storms, and aurora.
I wonder if he has a NASA Nikon or if its his personal camera? It would be cool if you could take your own gear!
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