You'll likely catch this image a million times in your various feeds: Earth as seen by Reid Wiseman from Artemis II en-route to the Moon.

My first thought? That's *really* noisy 🧐

But then I realised – it's the *nightside* of Earth, illuminated by the almost full Moon, not the Sun πŸŒ•

The bright limb at lower-right is where the dayside starts, & the fact that you can see aurorae, airglow, & cities in Europe, Africa, & S & N America also gives the game away.

Cool.

#Photography #Artemis

@markmccaughrean I also caught that! Cameras have gotten a HELL of a lot better.
@sysadmin1138 And the D5 is one of the very best cameras around if you feel the need to set the ISO to 51200 😬 It’s famously *not* ISO invariant, & remains pretty clean up to ridiculous settings.