APOD Robot wrote:A 3x8 mosaic of still images, the panorama was taken on May 3rd from a small drone 200 meters above the ground. The scene records the warm light of the Sun setting in the northwest and the planet's dark shadow rising in the southeast. [...] A range of exposures were combined to cover the difference in sky brightness for sunset and Earth shadow.
A couple of observations about today’s APOD:
1/ The road seems to be labeled “1019” in
Google Streetview, if I got the location correct. It only goes to Storulvån Mountain Lodge. Sort of Swedish
Overlook Hotel?
2/ Excellent mosaic, as the sides fit perfectly by shape and
near-perfect by color (probably because of capture time difference).
3/ May 3rd gives almost 17 hours (04:42–21:34) of daylight at 63°N. Wow.
4/ I would expect the sky to be equally bright near the horizon in the south-west and the north east, halfway between shadowrise and sunset. See red circled areas in this image. Can someone explain why the south-west might seems brighter?
[float=left][img]http://i.imgur.com/R9u8W6t.jpg[/img][/float][quote="APOD Robot"]A 3x8 mosaic of still images, the panorama was taken on May 3rd from a small drone 200 meters above the ground. The scene records the warm light of the Sun setting in the northwest and the planet's dark shadow rising in the southeast. [...] A range of exposures were combined to cover the difference in sky brightness for sunset and Earth shadow.[/quote]
A couple of observations about today’s APOD:
1/ The road seems to be labeled “1019” in [url=https://goo.gl/maps/2BWEvHyCQ2u]Google Streetview[/url], if I got the location correct. It only goes to Storulvån Mountain Lodge. Sort of Swedish [url=https://youtu.be/WQjj6RZK7I4]Overlook Hotel[/url]? :wink:
2/ Excellent mosaic, as the sides fit perfectly by shape and [url=http://i.imgur.com/mNXZMiT.jpg]near-perfect[/url] by color (probably because of capture time difference).
3/ May 3rd gives almost 17 hours (04:42–21:34) of daylight at 63°N. Wow.
4/ I would expect the sky to be equally bright near the horizon in the south-west and the north east, halfway between shadowrise and sunset. See red circled areas in this image. Can someone explain why the south-west might seems brighter?