Starship Asterisk*

Mr. Thierry Legault, you are my Master.
Thanks

Thanks to both "thearborist" and Chris for clarifying my question - sorry - I meant to point to the photographer's reaction time in pushing the shutter button instead of erroneously focusing on the actual shutter speed.

Amazing work .....

owlice: ((copied from the wiki-p article about tie-fighters .... "distinctive TIE fighter sound --- combines an elephant call with a car driving on wet pavement." ))

I think there must be the occasional tie-fighter out here in the middle of nowhere - I swear I've heard that kind of sound at night a couple of times - I'll keep my ray gun handy and will check in with Netfliks - thanks (grin)

biddie67 wrote:
owlice: (copied from the wiki-p article about tie-fighters ....
"distinctive TIE fighter sound --- combines an elephant call with a car driving on wet pavement." )

thanks to everyone for their nice compliments. About the color, I could have put a yellow filter but actually I simply did it by processing. When I began to take transits shots in 2006, I left them B&W but so many people wanted the image to be colorized that I decided to do it!

PS: I confirm that it's the ISS and not the HST, unless calsky confuses its satellite data and the HST altitude is getting lower and lower (in this case, it won't be long before it reaches the ground! )

A corrolary to this photograph is that occupants of the ISS must have observed the eclipse. What a sight that must be from space! I wonder if the ISS (or any other orbiting humans) have ever witnessed a total eclipse of the sun?

Nancy Atkinson @ Universe Today wrote:
Here’s a unique view of the January 4 partial solar eclipse: ESA’s sun-watching microsatellite Proba-2 captured the conjunction of the spheres as the Sun, Moon and Earth all lined up in front of it. Shortly after the Moon partially blocked Proba-2’s view of the Sun, the satellite flew into Earth’s shadow. At that point – when the video seen here goes dark – the Sun, Moon, Earth and Proba-2 were all on the same line in space.

http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMEAL0SDIG_index_0.html

neufer wrote:
...[various stuff]...

The force, or something, is unusually strong with this one.

Never change, neufer!

And congratulations to Thierry for capturing such an uncommon sight! Will anyone EVER get an image like this again? If you have to have just a partial eclipse, way to make the best of it, Thierry! My hat's off to you.

-Noel

I vote for the "something"

GoBears wrote:A corrolary to this photograph is that occupants of the ISS must have observed the eclipse. What a sight that must be from space! I wonder if the ISS (or any other orbiting humans) have ever witnessed a total eclipse of the sun?

It's happened a few times, this is just the first one that came up on a search:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... lipse.html

Unless you mean looking back the other way?

zorro wrote:Does anyone else think the International Space Station looks like the Canadian flag?

I was going to say that We best be restoring NASA's Funding because the Canadians have already landed on the SUN!!!

Mr T wrote:

zorro wrote:
Does anyone else think the International Space Station looks like the Canadian flag?

I was going to say that We best be restoring NASA's Funding because the Canadians have already landed on the SUN!!!

This is all going to end up in court: http://asterisk.apod.com/vie ... 77#p137662

Chris Peterson wrote:

biddie67 wrote:But I'm curious - 1/5000 second is beyond human reflexes (at least it is beyond mine) - is this photo taken with some kind of ultra-high-speed video camera and then a specific frame selected for display?

It was taken with an ordinary DSLR. The shutter time was 1/5000 of a second, but the photographer had nearly a second while the ISS was crossing the Sun to actually push the button and make that exposure. That still requires good reflexes, but nothing superhuman!

Either good reflexes, or else meticulous planning, which we know he had from the mere foresight to drive to a suitable spot, and a very good watch.

DSLR's on the market today can shoot as fast as 10 frames per second, and do so from as many as 30 frames to almost unlimited depending on the image file size.

Whichever was the case, he did an outstanding job to capture this shot.


Neufer, I enjoyed the TIE fighter comparisons to the ISS. Hmm, both are abbreviated as three-letter acronyms...coincidence? I think not.

iamlucky13 wrote:
Neufer, I enjoyed the TIE fighter comparisons to the ISS.

Hmm, both are abbreviated as three-letter acronyms...coincidence? I think not.

http://asterisk.apod.com/vie ... 02#p131602

jman wrote:

zorro wrote:Does anyone else think the International Space Station looks like the Canadian flag?

Maybe an omen - Canada vs Russia hockey game's today? Go Team ISS!

The Americans claim the moon, but the Canadians have planted their flag on the sun!