Stunning Astrophoto

nilhg

Hi All

Stumbled across this today. I don't know if it really belongs here but it is an amazing photo.

Zillah

Very very cool. I can't begin to think what was involved.

RuggieBear

here is a colour version

mike65

Wow! Kinda makes everything look small even when its 93 million miles away!

Mike.

iFight

Cool pic. Makes you think

5uspect

Fantastic stuff!

Xios

Lovely, it does make ya think though, that the shuttle and the station are moving at 5 miles per second, well, compared to the earth, not get started on the whole earth moving round the sun and the galaxies buzzing about too...

Ice_Box

Check this out

http://www.rense.com/general72/size.htm

rymus

*launches into a monty python session*

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the "Milky Way".

http://www.gecdsb.on.ca/d&g/astro/music/Galaxy_Song.html

Morlar

Ice_Box wrote:

Check this out

http://www.rense.com/general72/size.htm

That cant be right - earth compared to Antares looks like the head of a match stick compared to a oversized beach ball !

Anyone else think that the tripod in the original link

(http://astrosurf.com/legault/iss_atlantis_transit.html )

on this thread looks like it could jack up a hiace !

Shiny

That is awesome.

I'm going to steal my friends telescope next week.:)

mtracey

zoiks. looks amazing

Zillah

Morlar wrote:

That cant be right - earth compared to Antares looks like the head of a match stick compared to a oversized beach ball !

Antares is a supermassive star. Earth practically doesn't exist by its standards.

Shiny wrote:

That is awesome.

I'm going to steal my friends telescope next week.:)

You'll burn a hole through your head...

Takeshi_Kovacs

Excellent shot by that fella, i hope he hasn't burnt out any pixels on the 5D..
Timing was excellent, but i guess with celestial mechanics, everything goes like clockwork..






P.S.any one else think those cows looked very french?! (as opposed to the ol, black n' whites we have here...)

Dundhoone

I"f you believe they put a man on the moon...."

Looks like a ping pong ball with a bit of dirt stuck to it.

Im suspending belief till they give me a spin up there.:)

JackKelly

Ice_Box wrote:

Check this out

http://www.rense.com/general72/size.htm

arggg, my poor mind. I don't want to start thinking about those distances and masses.

Than start thinking about all the other billions of galaxies.