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astro_pettit OP t1_iuea18y wrote

Sun setting behind the ISS solar panels, captured on my previous mission in 2012. The sheet Kapton substrate for the thousands of individual solar cells produces the deep red-orange glow when illuminated at the proper sun angles. Captured with a Nikon D3s, 24mm f1.4 lens, f8, 200th sec, ISO 800.

More photos from the ISS can be found on my Instagram and Twitter.

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Nocuadra66 t1_iuebtaw wrote

Wow! Amazing photos on your Instagram!

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astro_pettit OP t1_iueebo5 wrote

Thank you; happy to share

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Ani-A t1_iuia5us wrote

Wait shoot. You are the guy who was in a bunch of Destin's videos no? The hypoxia video where you were testing your ability to self correct hypoxia?

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Timothy303 t1_iuezmgn wrote

I was gonna ask: are you an astronaut? How did you get that view! You are :)

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AudioKitty t1_iuep893 wrote

Thank you for sharing this -- goosebumps.

Astronauts are superheros.

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GeekyGarden t1_iugg49l wrote

Nice. It's amazing the wide use cases for kapton. I work in IT for a wholesale greenhouse and the environment inside the greenhouse is extremely rough on electronics (temperature extremes, dust, and moisture). We use loads of kapton tape as an extra layer of thermal and dust protection for sensor and relay boards. I'm working on an older greenhouse now where the controllers were installed 25 years ago. Amazingly, the company that makes the equipment keeps their software backwards compatible. It'll be running Windows 11 by the end of the week.

With the automation we use in our facilities from environmental controls, to water filtration and recycling, and massive amounts of robotics, it's not hard to imagine greenhouses on the moon or mars in a few decades. I think aeroponics is going to be a huge game changer for growing crops on lunar and martian outposts. I grow enough produce for my wife and I using an aeroponics tower that has a footprint of 4 square feet.

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john_dune t1_iui6fg0 wrote

What's your home setup like for the aeroponics? Its something I'm interested in exploring.

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Shintox t1_iufpyhx wrote

Amazing. Ty not only for the photo, but your service to humanity.

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knox902 t1_iugouyt wrote

Did you have to do anything special with the camera to take it on a space walk? I can't imagine it would be easy to operate with an EVA suit on.

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BarnyardCidery t1_iuh6uo7 wrote

Also your photos are incredible. Prob should have led with that.

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dan_dares t1_iuhlw2x wrote

Every time I see one of your posts, I am amazed.

thank you, and thanks to everyone that lets you take these pictures and keeps what you do in the public eye.

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ajwells007 t1_iuio01q wrote

Potential dumb question.. You had to be inside to take this image right? As in, the extreme effects of open space would destroy the camera?

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bigbluealienPG t1_iuey7gi wrote

Are the dark patches just shadows from another pair of panels? I remember somthing about newer panels being just overlayed over the old ones and at first wondered if that was the case here, but I guess it's probably shadows.

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GeekyGarden t1_iugge3f wrote

It's the next pair further out the truss. This photo was taken before the retrofit.

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tilman2015 t1_iuh13iu wrote

Wow, amazing photographs!

I love the ISS and will reguarly have the EHDC feed running while I'm working.

Will manage to log a contact with NA1SS one day too!

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BarnyardCidery t1_iuh6sm9 wrote

I ask this with all due respect: Is the reason you are now posting a 10 yr old image bc, like many of us underachieving schlubs, you just have stacks of sd cards you forgot about & ended up finding this one the other day? When you loaded up the file viewer were you like “Oh Sh** I thought I lost this in the Soyuz on my way home !” I’m not being sardonic or mean spirited or anything. I just think it’s a funny & humanizing scenario - that a f****** astronaut would forget about a full sd card like many of us do.

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Nocuadra66 t1_iueb8de wrote

Beautiful! I actually built all the locking mechanisms for the Solar panels when I was an aerospace technician in the industry many years ago.

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Phoenix_3DA t1_iuiil8c wrote

I have to ask, what are the locking mechanisms for and how do they work?

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Nocuadra66 t1_iuk3jhu wrote

When the panels are adjusted and turrned into position, the mechanisms I built extract and retract a pin that holds the panel in place.

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Batbuckleyourpants t1_iuemeb0 wrote

That title feels so much more casual than it has any right to be.

"So there i was, hanging out on the International Space Station, and i just happened to snap this neat photo out the window."

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JotaRata t1_iufedxg wrote

This is amazing but i find more amazing that a real astronaut is here with us!

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dillrepair t1_iugaqzc wrote

Dude… Reddit is cool AF there should be astronauts and lots of smart cool ppl. It’s why I spend so much time reading here.

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maxehaxe t1_iuh2tnm wrote

Are we talking about the same reddit?

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dickfaceasshole_69 t1_iueg1qv wrote

How do you ever get anything done up there with views like that? I would be stuck at the windows all day.

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TestCampaign t1_iuep16l wrote

Don, did you plan to take this shot (i.e calculating when the sun would be at that angle between the panels) or was this an image of opportunity? Looks great

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astro_pettit OP t1_iueq465 wrote

Sunsets and sunrises are very quick, so this was premeditated

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tiggertom66 t1_iug28l6 wrote

How many do you get to see in a day?

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dillrepair t1_iugaeuz wrote

It’s a lot isn’t it? Like every 90 minutes or something?

Edit Yep “The ISS travels at about 17,500 miles/28,000 kilometers per hour. At this speed, the ISS orbits the Earth every 90 minutes, which gives the crew 16 sunrises and sunsets every day.”

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evilleppy87 t1_iueh8g3 wrote

I would love to experience this view in person

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PlatinumBlast t1_iuek4wb wrote

Awesome shot! It really shows the contrast in brightness between night and day, if you look at how dark everything is when compared to the rim of daylight on the Earth. Keep posting here, it’s cool getting these kinds of images from an orbital perspective.

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Koh-the-Face-Stealer t1_iuff20z wrote

Ever since you started posting on this sub, the bar for photograph posts has been set insanely high. You might even say LEO high

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somethingsimple78 t1_iufx47z wrote

What makes Reddit fairly unique amongst social media platforms is how accessible individuals you would never encounter in daily life are.

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ShitwareEngineer t1_iuedwf7 wrote

Solar panels glowing orange, "ISS" standing out in the title... I thought I had missed a big event for a second.

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Classroom_Strict t1_iueta6s wrote

Did you miss this shot or mess it up and think to yourself "Damn. Well I'll just try again in an hour and a half."?

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precision_cumshot t1_iuggb3f wrote

Don’t think i’ve ever raised my eyebrows any higher in my life prior to seeing that “I” in the title, great to have you with us!

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tiggertom66 t1_iug2308 wrote

Always wild to see someone casually mention being in space.

Like as if they were saying they’re an accountant or salesman or something.

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dillrepair t1_iuga995 wrote

Wow. You are a very awesome person OP. Thank you for all your contributions to science etc, and thank you for sharing. Dream big folks.

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Dmoe33 t1_iuf868a wrote

At first i was like how tf you get on the ISS? then I saw the username.

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chet- t1_iuh99jc wrote

Weird question but, my uncle is a pilot and he loves taking photos from his jet and would absolutely freak out if he got a shout out from an actual astronaut on board the ISS. His name is Thomas Walsh and he’s my one of the coolest people I’ve ever met. Cheers!

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Black91crx t1_iui4e9v wrote

Boggles my mind there are people who think we've never been in space.

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ChineseNoodleDog t1_iui506y wrote

Would have never thought I would see an astronaut on reddit lol. When was the last time you were up there?

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edogg01 t1_iuebgpl wrote

Wow. I mean, just wow. Space is neat.

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Parabellum_3 t1_iuevqzw wrote

I wonder how good is the internet up there?

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curlywurlyonmetummy t1_iuf4yjy wrote

All that's missing is a hot cup of cocoa with that sunset.

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Sledgebear t1_iugjuld wrote

I should’ve followed you after your last post that you made

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bigsnack4u t1_iui9uf4 wrote

That’s some cinematic stuff. Stanley Kubrick would have ate a mile of shit to have this shot in 2001 Space Odessy

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wanna-game t1_iuexx20 wrote

I wonder how much hotter the sun must feel in space

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Stinky_WizzIeteats t1_iufmjs5 wrote

random question but does anybody know where the orbit: uncut video went on YouTube? The one with the spaceship white noise in the background….it was one complete orbit around the earth in gorgeous 4k

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pratyushdam t1_iuh8qwd wrote

Pffft that's just the universal sign passing over.

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FurySh0ck t1_iuhgv1p wrote

What a view, damn. Seeing this stuff always reminds me what I am, what we are, in comparison to this, especially when it's taken by people who literally have been there and seen that

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SweatyToothed t1_iuifui6 wrote

I legit thought this was a screenshot of No Man's Sky for a moment.

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Mun0425 t1_iuik5kc wrote

Is that a giant standing lenticular cloud in the background of the image way off to the right?

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max122345677 t1_iuilmwa wrote

Wow i didn't know the sun fits between the ISS solar panels. The ISS must be way more massiv than I always thought.

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