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DescriptionMelbourne at night from the International Space Station.jpg |
English: The city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia seen from the International Space Station at night reveals its young history. Unlike the winding streets of older cities, Melbourne’s streetlights follow a more planned grid system. Established in 1835 around the natural bay of Port Phillip, Melbourne is the capital of the state of Victoria in Australia.
The Nepean highway going south to Frankston circles the bay but stops at the Bass Strait. To the left is Geelong, 75 km south-west of Melbourne. The brightly-lit Point Henry is visible as a yellow triangle reaching out into Corio Bay. This image was taken by an astronaut on the International Space Station with Nightpod in 2012. The Nightpod camera-stand tracks the movement of Earth passing under the Station at 28 800 km/h, keeping any target fixed in the middle of the viewfinder. Standard cameras fixed to Nightpod can use longer exposure times so that astronauts can take sharper pictures of cities at night. |
Date | Taken on 20 March 2012, 13:34:39 |
Source | https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2012/04/Melbourne |
Author | European Space Agency |
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20 March 2012
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Image title | Melbourne |
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Camera manufacturer | NIKON CORPORATION |
Camera model | NIKON D3S |
Exposure time | 1/4 sec (0.25) |
F-number | f/1.6 |
ISO speed rating | 3,200 |
Date and time of data generation | 13:34, 20 March 2012 |
Lens focal length | 85 mm |
Horizontal resolution | 1,546 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 1,546 dpi |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.4 (Macintosh) |
File change date and time | 09:24, 6 September 2013 |
Exposure Program | Manual |
Exif version | 2.3 |
Date and time of digitizing | 13:34, 20 March 2012 |
Shutter speed | 2 |
APEX aperture | 1.356144 |
Exposure bias | 2 |
Maximum land aperture | 1 APEX (f/1.41) |
Subject distance | 4,294,967,295 meters |
Metering mode | Pattern |
Light source | Cool white fluorescent (W 3900 – 4500K) |
Flash | Flash did not fire |
DateTimeOriginal subseconds | 62 |
DateTimeDigitized subseconds | 62 |
Sensing method | One-chip color area sensor |
File source | Digital still camera |
Scene type | A directly photographed image |
Custom image processing | Normal process |
Exposure mode | Manual exposure |
White balance | Manual white balance |
Digital zoom ratio | 1 |
Focal length in 35 mm film | 85 mm |
Scene capture type | Standard |
Scene control | High gain up |
Contrast | Normal |
Saturation | Normal |
Sharpness | Normal |
Subject distance range | Unknown |
IIM version | 4 |
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