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Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 12:31 AM
Subject: [QCUIAG] A different kind of astrophotography

Hi folks,

Kinda off topic, kinda not...so I am posting across three astrophoto lists.
Here is a link to a different kind of astrophotography, looking at the Earth
at night from space.
My astronaut acquaintance, Don Pettit, has put together a 10-minute movie of
what cities look like at night as seen from space.
He shot these images while he was Science Officer aboard ISS Expedition 6
about 5 years ago.  He recently posted this on YouTube
and let me know about it today.  It is a stunning movie, you have to watch
it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEiy4zepuVE

A bit of trivia.... most of the music during the movie is from royalty-free
clips from Adobe Auditions, but for the Australian sequences, Don played his
own didgeridoo that he had with him in space aboard ISS.  As you remember,
Columbia was lost while Expedition 6 was in space, so Pettit and his
crewmates had to return in the Soyuz spacecraft.  He couldn't bring back
personal effects due to cramped space in the Soyuz, so he left his
didgeridoo on the space station.  Three years later his didgeridoo came home
on STS-114 and now he has it again, and played it in this movie.

Enjoy!

Robert Reeves                +29.484  98.440
reeve...@satx.rr.com      San Antonio, Texas
www.robertreeves.com