Looks like a disc to me. Checkmate, spherists.
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And discs are flat. Point, Flat Earthers.
ISO 51200
I didn't even know it could go that high. π€£
Sony A1 MKii can hit 102,400 for stills.
AFAIK anything past 32,000 is digitally expanded (which could be done with RAW post-processing).
EDIT:
See: https://www.photonstophotos.net/Charts/RN_ADU.htm#Nikon%20D5_14,Sony%20ILCE-1M2_14
The old Nikon D5, impressively, doesn't seem to post-scale even at ISO 102400
"Old" high-end DSLRs are aging well, digital photography has been in the diminishing returns for a while now. You're almost surely getting better pictures out of a 10 year old flagship than a brand new mid-level camera, and the "thoroughly tested" part matters a lot in spaceflight
Still surprises me that it's a D5 of all things, but then my main camera is only a year newer than that one. Not sure I'd use a DSLR at this point though.
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Thank you, I was annoyed when the source link just went to a blue sky post from some rando who themselves didnβt post their source.
To think we'd willingly destroy that beauty
Thatβs all there is. And a bunch of shortsighted rich motherfuckers are doing their best to end it.
The earth will be fine.
The plants and creatures on it? They will be battered, but recover.
Humans on the other hand... π
The planet is fine, the people are fucked
George Carlin
Down left, Spain.
Above, Northwest Africa.
On the right, South America.
Top: the aurora australis.
Actually, now that I look closer, if you look even more down left, there's also some aurora borealis!
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Behind: Things that are very very very very very very very far away.
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What is this bright thing at the center? Reflection of an interior light as it was taken through a window? Or what?
Looks like window reflection.
Just Starfleet violating directives again. It's probably best to ignore it; somebody else's problem.
You can also see the window frame at the bottom left.
Since the photo is received from the astronauts, it must be a reflection from their warm interior, indeed!
This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew...
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Where are all the international borders?
/s
Sadly, you can see the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic from space. Dominican Republic is the side with vegetation.
I'm in this picture and I don't like it
"As we can clearly see, the earth is flat, with australia being the only continent, apart from what we believe to be "east asia". Also: this whole mission is totally fake. "
-- Conspiracy mystics, probably.
(Edit: we are seeing north africa and western parts of south europe.)
So all the maps without New Zealand were true!
Btw it's Africa. And a bit of Europe.
Kinda wild it looks like Gibraltar and the Sahara survived a water world incident.
You can see planet earthβs big naturals
Hey, I can see my home from there! Kinda, the clouds are in the way