jh ([info]jin_n_juice) wrote,
@ 2006-12-10 15:07:00
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Night Launch
Discovery lifted off yesterday, and the New York Times article has a spectacular picture of the night launch:


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[info]cypherangel
2006-12-10 08:28 am UTC (link)
That's one pretty pic. I love the fire trail.

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[info]photog75
2006-12-10 03:57 pm UTC (link)
beauty indeed... rather long shutter speed also i guess... 15 - 30 sec?

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[info]jin_n_juice
2006-12-10 04:20 pm UTC (link)
yes, i would guess at least that, maybe 45 secs.. amazing photo, isn't it?

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[info]jin_n_juice
2006-12-12 07:23 am UTC (link)
Hmm looks like might be more than that - see my reply to [info]zenhiao's comment.

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[info]kutabare
2006-12-11 01:24 pm UTC (link)
OMG... it looks like a drawing... fantastic picture...

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[info]jin_n_juice
2006-12-12 05:55 am UTC (link)
ya, it's beautiful. Welcome back and congrats! Hope you're pleased with the showing!

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[info]zenhiao
2006-12-11 03:13 pm UTC (link)
wow nice pic.

hmm. just how fast does discovery go? 45s seems a bit long. i would have thought more like 15s?
partly also because of the exposure of the rest of the scene. but i guess that really doesn't say very much except about the relative brightness of the shuttle's trail vs the lights on the boats.

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[info]jin_n_juice
2006-12-12 07:22 am UTC (link)
Actually, it looks like it's more than just 45s, maybe a minute or more!

See the photos from NASA's site: by 00:00:46, Discovery hasn't climbed that high yet..

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[info]zenhiao
2006-12-13 01:37 am UTC (link)
hey thanks for the timed photos!

although it is hard to estimate precisely cos of the different angles and POV it is def much more than 15s and most likely more than 45s too. a minute or more?

oh and what the other photos do show is that the shuttle flare is MUCH brighter than anything else around it. which also points to a much longer exposure for the orginal shot. i wonder now if the photographer might have had to filter the light as well as stopping down to the smallest aperture?

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[info]jin_n_juice
2006-12-14 06:15 pm UTC (link)
Haha - not a clue! Depends on how small the aperture goes. Also, the boats look pretty sharp for a long exposure (they'd be bobbing up and down), though it's possible the original shot was at a very high resolution, and the motion blur doesn't come through in the small resized pic.

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[info]runecircle
2006-12-11 06:56 pm UTC (link)
fucking amazing. wish i could paint that lol

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[info]jin_n_juice
2006-12-12 07:23 am UTC (link)
That ain't no painting, but I'd love to see ya take a stab at it..

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[info]runecircle
2006-12-19 03:39 pm UTC (link)
no i know it's not a painting, but i was just saying that i wish could paint something like that

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