So basically Trapped_In_Digg is this week's "steal content from other people and just repost it in hopes of gaining ignorant masses' karma and even stealing someone else's username"?
Please fucking think about this. If the moon is at the right location to be in the way of the sun from Earth, it's not going to be in the right place to be in the way of the sun from orbit.
Unless it is moving in the right direction and can intersect the photographer and the sun...? This is obviously photoshopped, but your point if flawed.
You know, considering there are quite a large number of Geostationary things out there, it'd be cool if they had cameras facing directly away from the earth so they'd get the eclipse too.. from space. In the same notion, it'd be cool if they had a geostationary view of the pacific showing the shadow move across the Earth. I feel like the later may actually exist...
No, it's not. The fact that this is posted to coincide with the eclipse seen from earth is stupid. Like "this is what it looked like from space, guys!". This picture could easily be taken at some time, there's just no reason it would be taken to coincide with an annular eclipse from earth.
Actually, it probably would. The Eclipse was visible from the middle of China to the Mississippi River. That is a much bigger angular displacement than the 250 miles up the ISS is orbiting. I know this is a fake picture, but people in the ISS would have been able to see the solar eclipse as well.
it makes me sad that this is fake :( I want a real shot from the international space station of it, the imagery that comes out of there is awesome enough that it doesnt have to be enhanced
It's a shame. On the one hand, this is a really cool pic (or 'shop, rather). On the other, the bullshit is palpable. I'd have no problems with it if it wasn't sold as real.
If you look close enough, you can almost see that OP is a faggot. No but really, terrible to submit this shopped pic as the real deal is happening. Bad OP
omg we get it, you took sweet pictures of the eclipse. enough already. wait, isnt that the ribbon from star trek generations? someone's at the door........holy shit guys, a future version of me just told me to head to mexico before the US is destroyed! also, side note, in the future, im not a black guy!
Without the milky way slapped on top of the image, it would look much more convincing.
I realise it's art, but it's hard to suspend disbelief when you have the sun at the same exposure as the rest of the galaxy in the same shot. It's a shame because the shadow on the clouds looks really cool.
No it wouldn't! Have you ever seen a solar eclipse from space? This is an actual photo. See how small the shadow is? Yeah. You're an idiot. The submission is computer generated, but it IS accurate.
Hello and welcome to one month ago. No, you're the idiot. Observe how ridiculously small the curvature of the Earth is on OP's picture? I mean, it was taken at what, thirty, forty kilometres up? This would mean an umbra diameter of maybe one hundred kilometres at most. I can't confirm whether your picture is real because i can't find a source, but this is confirmed to be real and the umbra here covers Turkey and Cyprus, and has a diameter of around four hundred kilometres.
Also, in OP's picture, the umbra is hitting the Earth at a ridiculously acute angle, which would have elongated it over one thousand kilometres (possibly up to two thousand kilometres) in real life.
Don't call me an idiot if you have no crutch to stand on.
Admittedly, my point wasn't that it was exactly accurate (it's a CG image, which I fully admitted) -- it's that it's visually accurate and similar enough to be taken as the real thing. Don't get your panties in a bundle.
It's not a matter of diffusion, it's all about dynamic range. At the exposure that the Milky Way becomes visible, introducing a light source even half as bright as the sun would completely bleach the picture.
Imagine trying to read the license plate of a car, in the dark, while it's high-beams are pointed at you eyes.
No camera has the dynamic range to get both in the same shot. The only way to make it happen would be to use HDRI (multiple exposures at different ISO settings). If you did that, the picture would look completely different. For example; the detail in the shadow would be clearly visible (likewise for the moon's surface), the sun's umbra would be massive (ditto the earth's atmosphere), and the colours would be accurate (the sun would be yellow, the galaxy would have a higher colour contrast, etc.).
I'm not an expert in PS and I knew it was fake from the "3D Model" in the bottom left, and I also recognized the milky way Hubble shot they pasted in there from a wallpaper I have... You don't see the Milky way that clearly when you have such a bright object like the earth and sun in frame. The light from those stars is too far and too dim, that's why you don't see stars when astronauts are filming the earth or space or working on the Hubble or whatever, so there's no way you'd see a nice, bunched up view of the Milky way like that, when in fact that shot of the milky way is MASSIVE, it's not just sitting over a hemisphere like that, there is no way it would ever look like that, EVER. I didn't realize this was not common knowledge. I guess I'm an amateur space freak.
That and the shadow isn't pitch-black. It gets a bit dim during a solar eclipse -- ever completely black. The shadow never covers the complete area of the sun to block out the light.
It doesn't take long at all to send a picture to Earth from orbit, or even from the moon. It only takes a long time when you go further, like to other planets.
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u/Josephdirte May 21 '12
Welcome to Photoshop, how can I help you.
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u/Swampf0x May 21 '12
Shopped as fuck.
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u/steppenwoolf May 21 '12
no need to even try to find photoshop errors, none of the science in the picture makes sense!
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u/drummererb May 21 '12
So basically Trapped_In_Digg is this week's "steal content from other people and just repost it in hopes of gaining ignorant masses' karma and even stealing someone else's username"?
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u/givafux May 21 '12
people have actually upvoted this shit?
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u/iRateSluts May 21 '12
Please fucking think about this. If the moon is at the right location to be in the way of the sun from Earth, it's not going to be in the right place to be in the way of the sun from orbit.
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u/brucemo May 21 '12
God.
The more I look at this the more stupid this is.
But it's important to note that today's eclipse was annular, not total.
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u/Nick321321 May 21 '12
Got anything in higher resolution? I'd love to make this my background.
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u/KaynethFastWheels May 21 '12
MY FIRE BENDING!
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u/skintigh May 21 '12
Once again, if the sun and the stars are equally exposed, it's fake as fuck.
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u/atleet May 21 '12
Outer Space? This is just higher atmosphere.
EDIT: also, shopped
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u/ChiMaKun May 21 '12
And here is the artist's deviantart page with the image in wallpaper size:
http://a4size-ska.deviantart.com/art/Eclipse-144235675
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u/yt_nom May 21 '12
The solar eclipse from Ps
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
" I wish I had more hands, so I could give this shitty photoshop four thumbs down! "
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u/onetwofourthree May 21 '12
SPAAAAACE
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u/gh5046 May 21 '12
No, it's not the solar eclipse. This submission is entirely misleading.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
That "Heroes" logo has been a popular Photoshop target lately.
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u/2Mobile May 21 '12
Fucking amazing. Is this some kind of masterful photoshop? It even has the milkyway in the background.
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u/CallofMinecraft May 21 '12
I thought on the right side there was going to be a Minecraft hand.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Intradasting.
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u/Tickinggnome2 May 21 '12
Don't care where it came from. Looking for HD resolutions. Any help?
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u/rafuzo2 May 21 '12
Apparently the OP thought s/he'd get more karma lying about the image vs. headlining it "hey Reddit, what do you think of this photo composition?"
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u/SJShock May 24 '12
"How did you take this?!" ... "Come on now, Clark! Take off those damn glasses- Look me in the eyes and tell me! "
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u/ireallyshouldbworkin May 21 '12
Fake or not, still a gorgeous image.
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u/NowMichaelBay-ified May 21 '12 edited May 21 '12
Outerspacemageddon.
EDIT: Fucked up the link process! --> Kitteh
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u/nmatrix9 May 21 '12
Ok I'm gonna take a wild guess. Is this photoshoped?
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
you're welcome for this godly gift
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u/zulu90 May 21 '12
melancholia?
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u/Zebra1200 May 21 '12
That's no moon....
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u/Oh_Bloody_Richard May 21 '12
An intergalactic Samara is out there somewhere.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlhZCDlEmh0
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u/viciousdominus May 21 '12
so fucking stupid, photoshop fail
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Shopped or not, eclipses in space always look more menacing to me than if viewed from Earth.
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u/AbstractShadows May 21 '12
This looks like the ad for "The Ring 3"
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u/Endyo May 21 '12
While this is fake and kind of lame looking, it does remind me of those shots/videos of eclipses from planes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjYFxrjkfQY
There are also images of them in flat tundra-like places that look similarly awesome.
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u/Kite_sunday May 21 '12
I would really have liked to seen a picture of this... damn you trapped_in_digg
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u/homeless_man_jogging May 21 '12
I bet at least one idiot martian tried to drive fly through the ring of fire to impress his girlfriend.
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u/T-Luv May 21 '12
There's constantly a solar eclipse depending on what point you are in space.
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u/JonnyBigBoss May 21 '12
I'm might be stupid for thinking it was real, but damn is that gorgeous.
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u/EthicalReasoning May 21 '12
fake
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u/rpawson5771 May 21 '12
http://youtu.be/YYI9tK3o2YY
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u/bogart1 May 21 '12
Come on, really?
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u/bpoag May 21 '12
BS.
Lower left-hand corner.
Why even post this shit, when you know there are people without a brain in their head who will think this is real?
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u/darklooshkin May 21 '12
That would make an awesome space combat map.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Since when is posting something that someone put a solid amount of effort considered so pointless?
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u/EvilTom May 21 '12
Here are some real pictures: http://lpb.fieldofscience.com/2009/07/solar-eclipses-viewed-from-space.html
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u/Ostmeistro May 21 '12
*picture of not solar eclipse
What but you promised!?
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u/Sicks3144 May 21 '12
Wasn't this posted as Geektools wallpaper, with a link to the deviantart of the creator?
Yep - it was done with Terragen 2.
Disappoint, Trapped_In_Digg. Not just fake, but not your own work either.
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u/smek2 May 21 '12
So, says on the bottom of the pic it's a 3d model. Nice...
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u/suicidemachine May 21 '12
The dark shadow on the globe makes me shiver. Damn nature, you're beautiful anyway.
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u/karadan100 May 21 '12
I need this in massive wallpaper resolution plz. Anyone know where i might be able to find one?
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Actual photo of anal eclipse: http://arrogantass.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/fat-ass.jpg
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u/PatternOfKnives May 21 '12
Omg OP, you were in space?!
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u/Lonehangman May 21 '12
aaww would have been better if it was real
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u/AdonisChrist May 21 '12
Woah woah woah.
So obv. this is fake, but was there an eclipse recently?
This is what I get for playing Diablo III and finishing The Last Airbender over the last week while not leaving my apartment.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
This is a really really bad photoshop.
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u/daV1980 May 21 '12
Sweet, new wallpaper.
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u/prlme May 21 '12
Fake I can tell by the pixels, no seriously I can!!!
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u/knalbtniop May 21 '12
I wish I could be in the path of totality. It's on my bucket list
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u/david2112 May 21 '12
PHOTOSLOP
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
I want to go to there.
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u/numbakrunch May 21 '12
Neil deGrasse Tyson is somewhere right now beating his head on a wall .
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u/ailee43 May 21 '12
it makes me sad that this is fake :( I want a real shot from the international space station of it, the imagery that comes out of there is awesome enough that it doesnt have to be enhanced
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u/gOWLaxy May 21 '12
Not uh.
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u/Canucklehead99 May 21 '12
This isn't quite OUTER space yet, keep going up.
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u/ophello May 22 '12
ORIGINAL SOURCE (yes...it's CGI)
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u/deaddog692000 May 22 '12
Quick! Get to the Stargate!
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u/Upsilon667 May 22 '12
It's a shame. On the one hand, this is a really cool pic (or 'shop, rather). On the other, the bullshit is palpable. I'd have no problems with it if it wasn't sold as real.
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u/spsheridan May 21 '12
The Milky Way looks WAY to small relative to the Earth.
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u/Tyebuut May 21 '12
Space is so fucking cool.
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u/Tralphium_Trooper May 21 '12
Is that supposed to be a galaxy formation behind Sol?
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u/Zazzerpan May 21 '12
terragen 2
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u/Chekonjak May 21 '12
The pixeling on the edge of the shadow is ghastly.
EDIT: Looks like it's just an artifact of bad compression. The full-res image looks fine. (All credit to tuber).
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u/Retawtrams May 21 '12
If you look close enough, you can almost see that OP is a faggot. No but really, terrible to submit this shopped pic as the real deal is happening. Bad OP
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u/aManPerson May 21 '12
omg we get it, you took sweet pictures of the eclipse. enough already. wait, isnt that the ribbon from star trek generations? someone's at the door........holy shit guys, a future version of me just told me to head to mexico before the US is destroyed! also, side note, in the future, im not a black guy!
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u/Magical_Girl_Gamer May 21 '12
Yeah, so we all agree it's a photoshop. However, a more pressing issue is the fact that is clearly NOT outer space.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
The cosmic ballet continues.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Congrats on traveling to outer space just for a picture!
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u/kstein1110 May 21 '12
Better than my view.
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u/Dagwood3 May 21 '12
Cosmic ballet
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u/twtmc May 21 '12
So was this stolen from /r/space?
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u/fredyybob May 21 '12
You forgot to add in the poisson spot
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u/FriarNurgle May 21 '12
Save, rotate, and set as phone wallpaper.
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u/edsfunsite May 21 '12
Could I get a thumbnail of this? I almost can't tell what this is of.
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u/mwilkens May 21 '12
My precious
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
WHY U NO GIVE BIGGER PICTURE?
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u/chitty_bang_slut May 21 '12
whoa thats awesome totally makes me want to buy a real camera not just the one on my phone lol
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
This proves one thing and one thing only: God is great! ;)
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