Comment by dylan604
20 hours ago
https://www.planetary.org/space-images/the-iss-and-the-moon
https://spaceflightnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Statio...
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/spectacular-image-sho...
Just so we don't all think one person is the only one to do this
I mean kinda? This thread is about a skydiver. That's a lot less consistent than the orbit of the ISS or some other satellite.
It's also staged. They did it in multiple takes, and then composited out one of the takes with a mosaic of the clean sun. None of the others are composites, and none of the others got multiple takes
Source for it being a composite? The article says under the headline
> This is not photoshopped. That’s really a person falling in front of the Sun.
I haven't watched all the videos. From the Reddit thread, it sounds like it was photoshopped (using that as a generic term for photo editing with a computer) but in a way acceptable to the astrophotography community. I don't understand where those limits are: somewhere strictly between cropping the photo and photographing the skydiver in front of a white screen before pasting the silhouette into a picture of the sun.
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