Though Brad Pitt, Justin Bieber, and Stephen Hawking have all (allegedly) snagged tickets for Virgin Galactic’s first commercial space flights next year, it’ll still be a bit longer before our nation’s spaceports are as bustling as JFK or LAX on Thanksgiving weekend.
https://gizmodo.com/watch-a-virgin-galactic-test-flight-from-onboard-the-en-1263318278
That reality seems less far off when viewing French photographer Sebastien Lebrigand’s images, which capture planes in striking silhouette against the sun and the moon. The effect is a strange distortion of scale and perspective; it looks as if these are snaps of in-progress galactic journeys, unlikely contrails and all.
Lebrigand says “several days of waiting” are required to get the timing right. He uses a Vixen 114/600 and an i-NOVA 102/660 refractor and a Canon EOS 500D, and XnView software for trimming and contrasts. “The difficulty taking this kind of photo pleases me,” he tells Gizmodo. Us too, Sebastien. [Laughing Squid]
