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1. I wouldn't say no change in lighting... judging by the moving shadows, the light source is showed as shifting and the solar panels represented as to follow that, which isn't entirely illogic.simonshack wrote:1: We see NO change in lighting - whatsoever. Why would the solar panels have to rotate? To catch more sunlight ???
2: The Earth surface stays totally level with the ISS all along the timelapse - as if the International Space Station never wobbles by a whisker in relation to our planet! Let me just express my opinion: this is just grotesquely silly. NASA - and ESA - are fooling with our minds.
Hehe - I like you, nonho! You always keep me 'on the edge' - which is a good thing, I might trip over it and tumble into the void!nonhocapito wrote: 1. I wouldn't say no change in lighting... judging by the moving shadows, the light source is shifting from left to right, no? Isn't it logic if solar panels follow that?
2. Well maybe it is part of what makes an object stay in orbit the fact that it won't wobble. After all, in void, what kind of turbulence should make it wobble?
Sorry Simon sometimes I should probably hold my tongue and wait to understand better what is being meant. For some reason we are always rushed.simonshack wrote:Hehe - I like you, nonho! You always keep me 'on the edge' - which is a good thing, I might trip over it and tumble into the void!![]()
nonhocapito wrote: Every window has one and the way I understand it they are normally closed, I guess because of the famous debris that always misses.
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Like a told you, often silence can be agreement. Anyway, if I really had to pick on that argument, I could say that maybe the picture where the ISS looks closer to the surface of the earth could be explained with using some sort of telephoto lens from far enough? Like those postcards where the moon looks unrealistically big hovering over a city or something?simonshack wrote:Why the silence?
Nonho,nonhocapito wrote:
...could be explained with using some sort of telephoto lens from far enough?
Photographers look for these effects all the time, so it is no surprise if they are featured in NASA products of propaganda.
Well for me it is just not an "old lesson", Simon, nor a treatment of sorts, but a genuine question. I understand what you are saying: the ISS and the earth are too far from each other to be both in focus. So let's forget the telephoto. Here's a different approach, in all my ignorance: what if both the foreground and the background are included into the photographer's "infinity" range of focus...? (Hyperfocal distance, I understand it is called.) I guess in that case they would not look so close to each other? But couldn't that just be a result of the cropping of the picture?simonshack wrote:No. Telephoto lenses have very limited depth of field. Photographers use it for effect whenever a blurred background is wished - to make the foreground subject stand out in the picture.
The ISS is supposed to be at least 200 miles up in the sky. Show me a lens that can focus both the ISS and the Earth below it and I'll but it asap. I need it to snap a sharp picture of myself and the Space Station next time it passes over my house. Quite honestly, I wasn't expecting you to give me the old lens lesson treatment.
nonhocapito wrote: (...) what if both the foreground and the background are included into the photographer's "infinity" range of focus...?
This would be a photo taken by a human, from an approaching (or distancing) vehicle like the soyuz or the shuttle. It "looks" as if being far away above the station. But it could also be intended as just above it (which would make the double focus even more impossible?), and a bit in front as I seem to detect a bit of perspective?hoi.polloi wrote:What device is alleged to have taken the picture which was apparently even further from the Earth than the ISS?