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Reply to comment by jeerabiscuit in Many people have asked me if deep space photos can be captured from the ISS. This image I took aboard of the Large Magellanic Cloud shows how! More details in comments. by astro_pettit
Absolutely, during orbital night
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Reply to comment by TheCallousBitch in Many people have asked me if deep space photos can be captured from the ISS. This image I took aboard of the Large Magellanic Cloud shows how! More details in comments. by astro_pettit
Thank you, very poetic
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Reply to comment by nickkohrn in Many people have asked me if deep space photos can be captured from the ISS. This image I took aboard of the Large Magellanic Cloud shows how! More details in comments. by astro_pettit
Atacama has great views!
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Reply to comment by BobWheelerJr in Many people have asked me if deep space photos can be captured from the ISS. This image I took aboard of the Large Magellanic Cloud shows how! More details in comments. by astro_pettit
Thanks for kind words; happy to share
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Reply to Many people have asked me if deep space photos can be captured from the ISS. This image I took aboard of the Large Magellanic Cloud shows how! More details in comments. by astro_pettit
Large Magellanic Cloud taken from ISS during my first mission, Expedition 6 in 2003. This was taken when Space Station was flying XPOP attitude, a solar inertial attitude that allowed the solar panels to point towards the sun without tracking. Essentially, the station itself was the tracking mechanism. A solar inertial attitude is about one degree per day different from a stellar inertial attitude thus for 30 second time exposures the stars remain as pinpoints. Since about 2006, ISS has flown LVLH attitude, where one side remains pointed nadir towards Earth at all times and time exposures yield stars that are arcing trails.
This photo is a four image stack, taken with a Kodak-Nikon 760 (an early professional digital camera, a Nikon body with a Kodak FX-sized sensor), Nikkor 58mm f1.2 lens, ISO 800, with each exposure of 30 sec.
More astrophotography can be found on my Instagram and Twitter. Please let me know if you would like to see more here for Reddit!
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Reply to comment by Highspdfailure in Many people have asked me if deep space photos can be captured from the ISS. This image I took aboard of the Large Magellanic Cloud shows how! More details in comments. by astro_pettit
I have taken tens of thousands of photos over my career, and some of my are best on display here on my reddit profile, my Instagram, and my Twitter. More to come soon!