What an amazing view of Earth from Artemis II.
The Sun is behind the Earth, illuminating a thin crescent. This low-light shot, taken by Reid Wiseman using a Nikon D5, shows auroras over the poles, city lights, and the glow of the atmosphere.
And yes, there are stars!
https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/hello-world/ #space #science #nature #technology
@coreyspowell Not that long of an exposure, as far as astrophotography goes anyway - just 1/4 s. The amount of light captured is thanks to the wide open aperture (f/4), which also made details blurry, and the insanely high sensitivity setting (ISO 51200), which put a ton of noise over the whole image, and made a lot of stars indistinguishable from aberrant pixels :(
as a photography nerd this makes me a little bit sad, especially since the settings were manual
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