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This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew.
Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right.
Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
// That's home. That's us.
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Alternative references of better image quality mentioned in comments by @baguette@piefed.social:
- https://images.nasa.gov/details/art002e000192;
- https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e000192/art002e000192~orig.jpg [5568 x 3712]
"Old" high-end DSLRs are aging well, digital photography has been in the diminishing returns for a while now. You're almost surely getting better pictures out of a 10 year old flagship than a brand new mid-level camera, and the "thoroughly tested" part matters a lot in spaceflight
Still surprises me that it's a D5 of all things, but then my main camera is only a year newer than that one. Not sure I'd use a DSLR at this point though.
For what it's worth, they are switching to Sony: https://sonyaddict.com/2026/04/01/breaking-nasa-selects-sony-as-official-imaging-partner-for-artemis-lunar-program-the-first-new-moon-camera-in-over-50-years/sony-in-space/
when you build your own spacecraft, feel free to use whatever you want.
Fairly well. The newest sensors do have better dynamic range, with some exceptions (like the fully stacked ones).
TBH they should probably take a medium-format Fuji with a brighter lens to space. Or an A7S like someone had above.