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26 Dec 2016 03:53

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28 Dec 2016 12:25

Greetings from an SE newbie - here is a magnified animation of a lunar eclipse seen from the moon:

http://stevealbers.net/albers/lunar/lun ... op_16k.gif
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More info is in this UMSF thread in posts 33-34 and Don Davis' recent work is in post 32.

http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/inde ... t&p=233760

Further descriptive info is on my website here:

http://stevealbers.net/albers/lunar/lunar.html

The key here is looking at the sunlight interacting with Earth's atmosphere, including refraction, scattering, and clouds.

Here are some simulations involving solar eclipses as well:

http://stevealbers.net/albers/allsky/eclipse.html (views from the ground and the stratosphere)

http://stevealbers.net/albers/allsky/outerspace.html (views from space)
 
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16 Jan 2017 18:09

I've watched hundreds of sunsets in orbit. Like you can see in the picture in message 11, only the atmosphere closest to the planet appears red and when the sun is seen through that atmosphere it appears red.

And here's a picture I took myself
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Thanks for posting your actual sunset picture from orbit, how cool is that? This is an interesting example to simulate and here is the result, also showing the red atmosphere only in the very lower layer.
allsky_rgb_polar_0130_-82.3_400000.png
Note the sun in the simulation is hiding somewhere in the atmosphere without camera flare being modeled.
 
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13 Feb 2017 13:01

I've watched hundreds of sunsets in orbit. Like you can see in the picture in message 11, only the atmosphere closest to the planet appears red and when the sun is seen through that atmosphere it appears red.This video is what it looks like in real time.
"I've watched hundreds of sunsets in orbit"
Are you on the ISS or something?
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13 Feb 2017 14:59

Are you on the ISS or something?
Maybe...
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14 Feb 2017 03:09

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18 Feb 2017 21:39

Ah, eclipses. The events I always try to view but miss for some reason or the other.
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09 Apr 2017 09:59

I've watched hundreds of sunsets in orbit. Like you can see in the picture in message 11, only the atmosphere closest to the planet appears red and when the sun is seen through that atmosphere it appears red.
This video is what it looks like in real time.
[youtube]tfwFer6T7Ko[/youtube]

And here's a picture I took myself
IMG_0869.PNG
How did you take this? like how does it look so good, i just got Space engine, but in particular, planets look really low quality, and how do you have the ISS lol
 
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09 Apr 2017 10:53

KyranB, he took the picture from an online/live camera.
As for the planets being low quality, I'm guessing here you're referring to Solar System objects, see the FAQ.
If I'm not mistaken there was an ISS model around here, I'm pretty sure we'll have it again in a SE version orbiting around Earth. Soon[sup]TM[/sup].
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09 Apr 2017 21:36

Actually with a moderate sized telescope you can take pictures of the ISS with a bit of detail on it.  With a 14 inch SCT you can actually see windows on the ISS while with an 8 inch SCT you can make out areas of different brightness.
 
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10 Apr 2017 00:06

With a 14 inch SCT you can actually see windows on the ISS
I thought that was pretty surprising!  But it seems to be true.  With 14 inches aperture your resolution should be a little better than a meter at 400km.  At that point your more limited by the atmospheric turbulence, since you need sub arc-second seeing.
 
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10 Apr 2017 04:00

With a 14 inch SCT you can actually see windows on the ISS
I thought that was pretty surprising!  But it seems to be true.  With 14 inches aperture your resolution should be a little better than a meter at 400km.  At that point your more limited by the atmospheric turbulence, since you need sub arc-second seeing.

I was shocked too!  But I saw the images posted- they are a bit on the blurry side but you can clearly make out the windows.  If I can find them I shall post them again.  The minimum you need to detect any variations on the ISS is an 8 inch scope.
 
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10 Apr 2017 04:40

Well, I guess you can see spacewalking astronauts too ;-)

https://www.wired.com/2009/12/a-spacewa ... rom-earth/

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badas ... he-ground/

https://www.google.com/search?q=picture ... 80&bih=935

You can clearly see a spacewalking astronaut in that shot captured with a camera attached to an 8.5" aperture telescope :)

That site has some interesting simulations of Trappist-1 also

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-bri ... -bad-news/

and a different kind of planet that could harbor life

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/?p=19343
 
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22 May 2017 07:12

Eclipses? Very well...

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Phobos casts shadow on Mars. (Dark spot near Noctis Labyrinthus)

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Triton eclipses Neptune

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Io eclipsed by Europa

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Io eclipsed by Callisto

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Europa experiences a total lunar eclipse by Ganymede

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Dione by Enceladus

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Enceladus casts a light shadow on Titan. It's too far to cause a total or even an annular eclipse. It merely transits the Sun as seen from Titan.

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Messier 2 behind Oberon eclipsed by Umbriel

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Ariel by Umbriel

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Miranda's shadow on Titania. This one was a bit harder to get, given the inclination of Miranda's orbit.

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