Algol wrote:
Reckon not, ha, ha, but on a more sober side, when the Voyager Spacecraft made it;s flyby of Neptune, the scientists had to increase the exposure for the on-board cameras. Seems like even in broad daylight there wasn't enough light from the sun for the normal exposure range. Then they had to program the camera to stay centered on the planet as it moved through space during it's flyby. Now to make matters worse, the radio signal from over 3 billion miles out becomes so diluted due to the extreme distance that it's strength was less than a 3 watt light bulb! Then, to compound matters even worse they (scientists) had to retrofit their computers as they had advanced here on earth but the on-board computer was still decades old. And to think we as astrophotographers have such problems as we have, I salute the scientists at JPL and NASA.
Reckon not, ha, ha, but on a more sober side, when... (
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One of the astro shots I found the most amazing, was the photograph of Curiosity taken as it was zooming down towards the surface of Mars, shot from an orbiting satellite just as the chute was opening! Talk about exact timing...!