“The four cameras do not have any pan/tilt capability, each camera has a fixed field of view and the four cameras are mounted so that one points forward, one points nadir and two are oriented to the wake/aft side”
So, what happened to the Earth ? Most probably this ‘live feed’ is a composite. Someone forgot the turn off the view of ISS itself.
As for the ‘convexity’ of Earth, here comes the fisheye lens. The cameras point down to Earth to make the curvature. If they were set straight ahead the horizon would be…straight.
When I first tried the link, it was right there, moving slowly as it rotated and the ISS passed over. Over a few minutes, the cameras changed, and the Earth was still there, right where it should be.
That’s an amazing view, and thanks for showing it to us.
But what’s the debate here? And why is this a hoax?
karol, I asked you in previous threads and I will ask you again.
(I strongly recommend not responding until we have a coherent answer. Also, fisheye lens? Scroll two inches down to he “best of” and the thumbnail clearly shows that no, it’s not a fisheye lens.)
OK, I realized that it’s hard to prove that the ISS view without Earth is probably added automatically because it could be..night as well.
Anyway strange that none came up with this yet.
I’m going to go out on a limb here, and say that the goal would be to fool people into thinking the Earth is a sphere instead of flat. Hard as it is to believe, the OP actually seems to be a Flat Earther…probably a moon landing hoax believer as well, as the two go hand in hand.
Students at the Oklahoma university can reach the edge of space and still see the curvature of the earth, but what is useful in this case is that there is a digital technique to de-fish an image made, the earth is still curved.
As the fish eye distortion does affect the space station or the shuttle when they are in the same frame with the earth images I can find they can be digitally corrected to make the lines of the space station (solar panels, robotic arms) to be straight as they should be in GIMP or Photoshop and I can tell you that the earth behind is still curved, some of the images you are using are close-ups of the shuttle in the distance, not much different than what people would see on the ground.
If the OP is correct, and we’re all dupes, then we’ll figure this out pretty quickly in the next decade or two as commercial spaceflight becomes cheaper and cheaper, and many of us will be able to actually buy a ticket and see it with our own two eyes.
Although that would be awesome, there’s only one of us who really should go. Imagine what will happen to him when he tells the pilot that the Earth is not an oblate spheroid. Will those shuttles have an airlock or just a hatch?
