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Related: About this forumMy God Its Full of Stars! Astronaut Recreates the Stargate Sequence From 2001
http://www.onorbit.com/node/4640Astronaut Don Pettit Recreates the Stargate Sequence From "2001"
Submitted by keithcowing on Mon, 05/14/2012
Below is a frame from the "Stargate Sequence" from the iconic film "2001: A Space Odyssey".
These three images below are a composite of a series of images photographed from a mounted camera on the Earth-orbiting International Space Station. Expedition 31 Flight Engineer Don Pettit is the photographer. It would seem that he has managed to recreate the stargate sequence - in space.
JSC2012-E-051506_alt (22 March 2012) --- high res (0.4 M) low res (64 K)
JSC2012-E-051507_alt (17 March 2012) - high res (1.6 M) low res (98 K)
JSC2012-E-051505_alt (16 March 2012) - high res (2.6 M) low res (121 K)
Expedition 31 Flight Engineer Don Pettit relayed some information about 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 46 images photographed by the astronaut-monitored stationary camera in the Cupola were combined to create this composite. Other locations on the orbital outpost were used by the crew to mount cameras to achieve other composites.
Via http://nasawatch.com/archives/2012/05/my-god-its-full.html
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My God Its Full of Stars! Astronaut Recreates the Stargate Sequence From 2001 (Original Post)
bananas
May 2012
OP
DCKit
(18,541 posts)1. One of those times when the remake is better than the original. nt
OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)2. Cool!
BadgerKid
(4,559 posts)3. Slit-scan photography FTW
Here how the 2001: A Space Odyssey sequence was made: http://seriss.com/people/erco/2001/