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Astronaut Don Pettit shows how to take long-exposure photos from the ISS
The photos are pretty impressive.
NASA astronaut Don Pettit created his own device to help him take photos of the stars while on the International Space Station — and the results are pretty impressive. Star trackers are designed to rotate with the Earth — or in Pettit’s case, the ISS — to prevent distortion when taking pictures of the night sky. “Without this tracker, you can not take photo[s] longer than 1/2 sec without star blur due to the rate of orbital motion,” Pettit writes.
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