Astronauts Don Pettit and Matthew Dominick held a fascinating discussion about taking pictures in zero gravity while in space.
It was held on NASA’s X page on Spaces, a live audio conversation platform. This X Spaces came live from space because Dominick is currently living onboard the International Space Station .
However, he points to taking detailed, still photos of the Milky Way Galaxy and the stars beyond as something that is impossible to do from the ISS. “This is because of the pitch rate of the station and it makes the stars trail instead of points. So if you want to have a long-time exposure you just can’t do that with the current station altitude,” he adds.Later on in the live stream, Matthew comes back to the question and explains that he has cameras around the station “ready to go” at all times, set up with the correct shutter speed and flash.
He gives one example where he wanted to get a photo of the crew from above and he simply floated up into the ceiling to get the shot he wanted.
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