Timeline for Could one see stars from Concorde in daytime?
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| May 14, 2021 at 12:56 | comment | added | Giovanni | @RobertDiGiovanni The Concorde II is currently being built by Boom Technology. It is important that it has good windows so one can see anything outside with one's own eyes, unlike in the Spike S-512 which wouldn't have windows but use cameras instead, and you wouldn't know whether it is something outside or an ice crystal on the camera's objective. | |
| May 14, 2021 at 10:38 | comment | added | Robert DiGiovanni | "The specs" may be ice crystals, but one picture seems to have a star or planet visible. We'll have to put in for a "moonroof" design on Concorde II for a more definitive answer. | |
| May 12, 2021 at 18:03 | comment | added | Giovanni | @FreeMan I agree with what you say about the cockpit image to the right, and this is what made me feel unsure if the dots in the other image are actually stars. But orbs of dust usually look like large circles. I hope someone can shed light on this. | |
| May 12, 2021 at 17:58 | comment | added | FreeMan | The white specs in the left-hand image of the 2nd row of pics could be stars, but they could just as easily be some dust or a scratch or pit on the window. That's exactly what Ralph J said. The array of spots on the right-hand image in that row (inside the cockpit) is definitely something on the window itself. | |
| May 12, 2021 at 17:52 | comment | added | Giovanni | @FreeMan So what would cause them? As you can see in the linked image, the stars can look 'way too bright' on it. | |
| May 12, 2021 at 17:30 | comment | added | FreeMan | What would cause the specs? "I'd strongly suspect those specks are either on the camera lens or the aircraft window." - @RalphJ | |
| May 12, 2021 at 4:36 | comment | added | Giovanni | @RalphJ What would cause this specks? When taking an image of the sky from within a spacecraft, it may happen that you get stars visible on it as there is the window in front of the camera. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/STSCPanel.jpg | |
| May 12, 2021 at 4:33 | history | edited | Giovanni | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 11, 2021 at 21:27 | comment | added | Ralph J♦ | Those specks look both too large and way too bright to be stars. They're basically as bright as the clouds in daylight, and stars aren't nearly as bright as that. Try taking a picture of the night sky on a clear, dark night with your phone's camera... you might get individual stars, but probably not. Now try it with something moderately bright (like that cloud layer) in part of the photo... the camera won't see stars at all. I'd strongly suspect those specks are either on the camera lens or the aircraft window. | |
| May 11, 2021 at 17:36 | comment | added | Camille Goudeseune | meta.stackexchange.com/help/merging-accounts fyi | |
| May 11, 2021 at 16:02 | comment | added | Giovanni | @CamilleGoudeseune Yes it's me. | |
| May 11, 2021 at 16:01 | comment | added | Giovanni | @RalphJ On the image on which you only see the horizon, no Concorde window and no Concorde wing, only the Earth from cruise altitude. You can see a star on the upper left and another on the upper right of the dark sky. Or at least I assume it are stars. | |
| May 11, 2021 at 15:32 | comment | added | Camille Goudeseune | Is this answerer a duplicate account of the questioner's? | |
| May 11, 2021 at 15:05 | review | Late answers | |||
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| May 11, 2021 at 14:59 | comment | added | Ralph J♦ | Can't tell which photo you're referring to as having stars in it. Also, FWIW, even at midnight photos that size have a hard time depicting individual stars - they're just so tiny & pretty dim. Doesn't mean that stars are, or aren't, there for the eye to see, just that they're hard to capture in small photos with nearer (and much brighter) objects in view & in focus. | |
| May 11, 2021 at 14:46 | review | First posts | |||
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| May 11, 2021 at 14:43 | history | answered | Giovanni | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
