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FYI some of those amazing shots were also taken by Andrew McCarthy. https://x.com/AJamesMcCarthy/status/1611128761776492544/ https://x.com/AJamesMcCarthy/statu

FYI some of those amazing shots were also taken by Andrew McCarthy. https://x.com/AJamesMcCarthy/status/1611128761776492544/ https://x.com/AJamesMcCarthy/status/1611128761776492544/ https://x.com/AJamesMcCarthy/status/1479541092693381120/ https://x.com/AJamesMcCarthy/status/1479541092693381120/ https://x.com/AJamesMcCarthy/status/1837219848478412935/ https://x.com/AJamesMcCarthy/status/1837219848478412935/ https://x.com/AJamesMcCarthy/status/1968658340679921925/ https://x.com/AJamesMcCarthy/status/1968658340679921925/

dylan604 11mo ago
https://www.planetary.org/space-images/the-iss-and-the-moon https://www.planetary.org/space-images/the-iss-and-the-moon https://spaceflightnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Station_Moon_transit.jpg https://spaceflightnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Statio... https://www.universetoday.com/articles/spectacular-image-showcases-space-station-transiting-the-sun-with-9-member-crew https://www.universetoday.com/articles/spectacular-image-sho... Just so we don't all think one person is the only one to do this
- pests 11mo ago
  I mean kinda? This thread is about a skydiver. That's a lot less consistent than the orbit of the ISS or some other satellite.
  - dylan604 11mo ago
    It's also staged. They did it in multiple takes, and then composited out one of the takes with a mosaic of the clean sun. None of the others are composites, and none of the others got multiple takes
    - dmurray 11mo ago
      Source for it being a composite? The article says under the headline > This is not photoshopped. That’s really a person falling in front of the Sun. I haven't watched all the videos. From the Reddit thread, it sounds like it was photoshopped (using that as a generic term for photo editing with a computer) but in a way acceptable to the astrophotography community. I don't understand where those limits are: somewhere strictly between cropping the photo and photographing the skydiver in front of a white screen before pasting the silhouette into a picture of the sun.
      - dylan604 11mo ago
        From within this own topic, there are clues: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45951713 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45951713 Sure, all of the elements were captured, but not in a single image released as the final image. If you look at a search for “solar transit”, none of them have as much detail in the sun as this one. That’s evidence of comping the sky diver onto his mosaic. It’s similar to when people come in a full moon over itself when captured in a wide angle image. Yes, the moon was there and it is just updated with something with more detail and better exposure, but it’s not a single image possible to capture without comping. Maybe it’s not as obvious to someone less familiar with astrophotography, but that just makes the sin that much worse. At the end of the day, it’s a great artistic shot, but it nothing more than the same level of effort to make a modern Marvel movie
Zanni 11mo ago
That lost shot (Falcon 9 transiting the sun) is my favorite. I've got a print of it in my office, waiting to be hung on the wall.

dylan604 11mo ago

https://www.planetary.org/space-images/the-iss-and-the-moon https://www.planetary.org/space-images/the-iss-and-the-moon https://spaceflightnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Station_Moon_transit.jpg https://spaceflightnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Statio... https://www.universetoday.com/articles/spectacular-image-showcases-space-station-transiting-the-sun-with-9-member-crew https://www.universetoday.com/articles/spectacular-image-sho... Just so we don't all think one person is the only one to do this

pests 11mo ago
I mean kinda? This thread is about a skydiver. That's a lot less consistent than the orbit of the ISS or some other satellite.
- dylan604 11mo ago
  It's also staged. They did it in multiple takes, and then composited out one of the takes with a mosaic of the clean sun. None of the others are composites, and none of the others got multiple takes
  - dmurray 11mo ago
    Source for it being a composite? The article says under the headline > This is not photoshopped. That’s really a person falling in front of the Sun. I haven't watched all the videos. From the Reddit thread, it sounds like it was photoshopped (using that as a generic term for photo editing with a computer) but in a way acceptable to the astrophotography community. I don't understand where those limits are: somewhere strictly between cropping the photo and photographing the skydiver in front of a white screen before pasting the silhouette into a picture of the sun.
    - dylan604 11mo ago
      From within this own topic, there are clues: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45951713 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45951713 Sure, all of the elements were captured, but not in a single image released as the final image. If you look at a search for “solar transit”, none of them have as much detail in the sun as this one. That’s evidence of comping the sky diver onto his mosaic. It’s similar to when people come in a full moon over itself when captured in a wide angle image. Yes, the moon was there and it is just updated with something with more detail and better exposure, but it’s not a single image possible to capture without comping. Maybe it’s not as obvious to someone less familiar with astrophotography, but that just makes the sin that much worse. At the end of the day, it’s a great artistic shot, but it nothing more than the same level of effort to make a modern Marvel movie

Zanni 11mo ago

That lost shot (Falcon 9 transiting the sun) is my favorite. I've got a print of it in my office, waiting to be hung on the wall.