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- Composite of a Series of Images Taken From Space Aboard the Station
This is a composite of a series of images photographed from a mounted camera on the Earth-orbiting International Space Station, from approximately 240 miles above Earth. Space station hardware in the foreground includes the Mini-Research Module (MRM1, center) and a Russian Progress vehicle docked to the Pirs Docking Compartment (right). Expedition 31 Flight Engineer Don Pettit said of the photographic techniques used to achieve the images: "My star trail images are made by taking a time exposure of about 10 to 15 minutes. However, with modern digital cameras, 30 seconds is about the longest exposure possible, due to electronic detector noise effectively snowing out the image. To achieve the longer exposures I do what many amateur astronomers do. I take multiple 30-second exposures, then 'stack' them using imaging software, thus producing the longer exposure." A total of 47 images photographed by the astronaut-monitored stationary camera were combined to create this composite. Image Credit: NASA
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Monthly Archives: August 2007
Inspiration? Motivation?
Anyone that has found this blog, and follows it will likely have already seen the “meat” of this post. While I have never really found an attraction to “rap” this particular performance and message hits home for me. I have … Continue reading
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Revamping the Site
Hang tight folks, I will likely have some remodeling taking place on this site over the next month of two. I need to figure out what I can and cannot do with both this host, and their version of wordpress. … Continue reading
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Missing Updates
I apologize to anyone following, or dropping into this blog looking for entries. As I implied in a couple of previous posts, life has been keeping me busy recently. Between the kids, work, building a new computer (and rebuilding the … Continue reading
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The Old Ways
So aside from being swamped and not having enough time to post to this blog as much as I would like, I have been following an interesting daily quote series over at Random Nuclear Strikes, excerpts from The Reagan Diaries. … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, History
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Lex’s – The way we were
Take the time to go read this post, over at Lex’s place. It says a lot.
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Missing Updates
All – My apologies. This blog has been back burnered for a few weeks. Getting back into the swing of it now.
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