Astronaut Don Pettit captured a 'lucky shot' when a commercial airplane flew through the frame as he was capturing images of the Sun.
Astronaut and astrophotographer Don Pettit captured a “lucky shot” when a commercial airplane flew through the frame as he was capturing images of the Sun.that, with the help of his pilot friends at NASA, he managed to figure out the exact plane and even sent the picture to the crew who were onboard.
“All the equipment that we have on , is also available for check-out so you can practice with it before the flight,” he explains. To get around this, Pettit shot two to three thousand frames and then chose the best 20 or 30 to stack together in an “amalgam” TIFF file. “Before I made this barn door tracker on the station you would do a handheld picture of cities at night with maybe a one-second exposure and they’d always be blurry particularly if they were done with a telephoto lens,” he says. “This was the first time it allowed anybody to get sharp images of cities at night.”
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