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]
It looks like the daytime side because the ISO is cranked up that high.
This is the nighttime side, only lit by reflected moonlight. The sun is behind earth on the bottom right.
They wanted to fire off that first shot as soon as all of earth fit in the window, instead of waiting 12 hours.
Yeah I realized that afterwards. At the end of the day moonlight is basically just sunlight but dimmer (also something you learn when trying to shoot night scenes), that’s why we can shoot “day for night” and it looks mostly correct.