> On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 04:01:37 +0200, gregjohn <pte### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
>
>> "gregjohn" <pte### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
>>> http://creativeallies.com/design-contests
>>
>> Stop me if I'm boring yall, but here's another, unrelated item.
>> I asked an astronaut on Twitter what a starfield actually looks like
>> outside the
>> window of a space shuttle.
>>
>> This was his answer:
>> http://twitpic.com/1jq6zi/full
>>
>>
>
> I thought stars aren't supposed to show up in shots like this. Now I'm
> confused
>
>
When you are over the DAY side of the earth, no.

Relatively long exposure over the night side of the earth. We can see 
that the camera had some rotation around a point in the top left area.

The bright red to yellow lines in the bottom, under the arc, are city 
lights.
The green to orange arc is light scattered by the athmosphere.



Alain

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