NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick joins us live from the International Space Station’s cupola to discuss his mission, share breathtaking views of Earth, and explain the new technology that allows for this incredible interview.
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But the cupola is really bright, and we, we recently got something shipped up to us called neutral-density filters, and these little films that we put over the windows—for photography nerds these are four stops. So these are—these provide four stops of, of exposure change that we’re able to put in front of the windows to help expose—for pictures, if we want to take a picture of something both inside the cupola but also be able to see the Earth on the outside. So we’re trying that out today.
You know, and you have to shoot really fast shutter speeds sometimes just because we’re going so fast. Folks who do astrophotography on Earth might be able to expose 10, 15 seconds without seeing star trails, depending on what lenses they’re using. Up here, you know, I was pictures the other day; in a half-second exposure I was seeing streaks in city lights.
So lots of great equipment up here and lots of practice. And luckily it’s not analog anymore, so you can shoot a lot and not feel too bad about wasting film.Totally. So I know there are, like, pretty strict rules about how much weight an astronaut can bring up into space. Did you have to make any tough decisions about what equipment to bring with you?Luckily all the photo/TV equipment is provided through, through the International Space Station. That’s up here already.
I think I’m gonna suffer from recency bias there. I have a lot of pictures. I do like to take a lot of candid pictures inside the space station of crewmates at work or, or catch them when they’re having fun. But external photographs, I probably suffer from recency bias here. Just set up a time-lapse the other day, shooting one of my favorite things, which is Southeast Asia fishing boats. Actually, no, it wasn’t that picture, sorry . Shooting the Nile River.
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