This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew.
Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right.
Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
// That’s home. That’s us.
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Alternative references of better image quality mentioned in comments by @baguette@piefed.social:
- https://images.nasa.gov/details/art002e000192;
- https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e000192/art002e000192~orig.jpg [5568 x 3712]
Less grain than a shorter exposure? Absolutely. Due to motion you still have to cap exposure duration to a somewhat small number or you’ll start getting light streaking. It would be very interesting to see the exif information for this photo.
It is there:
Thanks! I should have looked.
ISO 51,200 is pretty high, which is why there’s the grain/noise. I wonder if whomever took the photo also tried with a somewhat longer shutter speed and/or wider aperture. Both would reduce ISO and thus noise but come with trade-offs. Longer shutter speed can result in light streaks due to motion and a wider aperture will give less depth of field.