Chicago Alight
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Chicago, Illinois on Lake Michigan
12 MP (2832×4256) Digital
City lights are very difficult to shoot from space, and the number of photos that are this clear is very small. In spite of being only 12 megapixels, this image is crisp enough to look great poster-size.
That’s because astronaut Don Pettit built a specialized camera stabilizer for taking pictures like this one. He used parts he found around the Space Station; personal-size CD players became gyroscopes.
While most APEx photos are color-corrected to resemble “what the astronaut’s eye would have seen”, Campfires Collection photos like this one are not. The human eye doesn’t see colors in very low-light conditions. Astronauts report seeing mostly white/gray with hints of color; city lights just aren’t bright enough to see clearly from 250-500 miles away. This is what the camera captured; the color-correction setting are the same as for daylight photos.
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