Shuttle picture taken with sun as backdrop

[02mingryGT]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2431157.ece

[beefcake]

looks fake lol

[02mingryGT]

looks fake lol

Like the moon landing....lol.

[Black Horse]

I'll cry bs on this one, if an "amature" photograpoher was to shoot directly into the sun, it would blow out the whole photo. IF it is a true photo, it was not taken by an amature. (I'll vote for a photo shop)

[02mingryGT]

I'll cry bs on this one, if an "amature" photograpoher was to shoot directly into the sun, it would blow out the whole photo. IF it is a true photo, it was not taken by an amature. (I'll vote for a photo shop)


Think again:

http://www.skynyx.fr/legault/atlantis_hst_transit.html

My suggestion would be to google it and you'll find even more pictures of objects in front of the sun besides the space shuttle. It's kind of funny you would think that we couldn't figure a way to filter out the brightness of the sun but can put a telescope in space that can can take pictures(now) within 600 million years from the creation of the universe. Come on man.

[Rick93coupe]

I don't think BlackHorse was trying to be a dick, the picture does look like a bad photoshop. To me it's more crazy that we can calculate when it would be possible to snap a picture of the sun 2 seconds early in order to take a picture of something passing in front of it that's in our orbit!
"Exposure of 1/8000s at 100 ISO, extracted from a series of 16 images (4 images/s) started 2s before the predicted time."

[Black Horse]

I am impressed by this capture, and it does seem real......but this guy is NO amature!

[Rick93coupe]

I am impressed by this capture, and it does seem real......but this guy is NO amature!

What'ya mean? My panasonic 4mp camara can take exposures of 1/8000s :D

[Black Horse]

Yup, just bolt it up to: "Takahashi TOA-130 refractor (diameter 130mm, final focal 2200mm), Baader solar prism"

[02mingryGT]

I don't think BlackHorse was trying to be a dick, the picture does look like a bad photoshop.

I wasn't trying to be a dick in my answer either. Unless the guy taking the picture is working for money then he is an amature. I am sure there are plenty of professionals in the amature field. And they spend their money on crazy telescope cameras like we spend money on cars. Just because you may own a 10 sec car doesn't make you a professional.

Sad when the real thing looks like a fake. i think it's because we have been conditioned with all the CGI in movies and have lost touch with that which is actually real.

And as far as the calculations, it's math. You should understand, though it may seem mind-boggling, the calculations to get the shuttle to a rendevous point with the Hubble are much more complicated.

[BigBadStang]

:eek: Kinda puts shit in perspective with the sun being some 90 million miles away and still looking that enormous!

This is even more mindblowing to me.
**note where the grid is centered...that's our solar systems sun!:eek:
CLICK HERE (http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/236084main_MilkyWay-full-annotated.jpg)...Image was HUGE...so I put up the link. :)

[02mingryGT]

:eek: Kinda puts shit in perspective with the sun being some 90 million miles away and still looking that enormous!

This is even more mindblowing to me.
**note where the grid is centered...that's our solar systems sun!:eek:
CLICK HERE (http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/236084main_MilkyWay-full-annotated.jpg)...Image was HUGE...so I put up the link. :)

That's a cool map. I'll use that as a background for my work computer(maybe if they don't cry). If you add the numbers up the Milky way is 105000+ light years across. That is nuts. Someone better find a wormhole or Stargate....lol. Makes you feel small when compared to that and then realize there are hundreds of billions of galaxies.

[BigBadStang]

...Someone better find a wormhole or Stargate....lol. Makes you feel small when compared to that and then realize there are hundreds of billions of galaxies.

:yup:

I've always thought we'd have to pretty conceited to think that in all the vastness of the universe, that we are the only life in it. Now I'm not saying other life forms visit us in flying saucers:lol:, but we can't be the only forms of life. :)

[BadBirdLT1]

I was there for that space shuttle launch. My first one it was impressive but the blonde at the bar after was even better LOL :;