Double Eclipse Photographed, Sun, Moon, and ISS

THAT'S AWESOME!

  On 1/5/2011 at 12:00 PM, Al Hounos said:

THAT'S AWESOME!

that's really cool! new desktop photo I reckon

That tie fighter doesn't need to stray from formation too far.

lol my thoughts exactly.

INSANELY

FUCKIN A

meh

It's pacman yawning

That is amazing. He had like a second to take that picture. Crazy crazy cool.

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woooaaahhh double eclipse all the wayyyyy!!!

But isn't it likely that he was taking photos rapidly during the minute it was expected to pass through? That's what I would have done, but I'm also not a skilled photographer... and there's probably some prep work involved that I'm totally ignorant of which would make that impossible. I'd be curious to know how he did it. Amazing pic in any case.

  On 1/6/2011 at 7:11 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

But isn't it likely that he was taking photos rapidly during the minute it was expected to pass through? That's what I would have done, but I'm also not a skilled photographer... and there's probably some prep work involved that I'm totally ignorant of which would make that impossible. I'd be curious to know how he did it. Amazing pic in any case.

this fella has a long history of taking similar photos. it's all done by hand... i reckon he lines that shit up and sets his camera to take like 200 photos over the space of the minute or so where the crossing is due to happen (data is readily available). then he picks the right one afterwards.

it doesn't detract from the photo in the least imo.

  On 1/6/2011 at 7:14 AM, kaini said:

i reckon he lines that shit up and sets his camera to take like 200 photos over the space of the minute or so where the crossing is due to happen (data is readily available). then he picks the right one afterwards.

 

it doesn't detract from the photo in the least imo.

Yeah, that's what I was imagining. I agree that it doesn't detract from the photo.

Yeah I'm sure he did that but still, according to the article/blog post:

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But talk about brief; the ISS was in front of the Sun for less than second

So that's pretty intense.

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That’s why Thierry sojourned to Oman; due to the geometry of the ISS orbit, it was from there that he had the best chance of getting a picture of the station as it passed in front of the Sun during the relatively brief duration of the actual solar eclipse. But talk about brief; the ISS was in front of the Sun for less than second, so not only did he have one chance at getting this spectacular once-in-a-lifetime shot, but he had only a fraction of a second to snap it!

 

that guy's a legend. Must be fucking rich to travel around the world taking shots of the iSS though.

one second is an eternity to take a picture. you ever sit on your porch during a t-storm and try to photograph lightning? sheeeeit.