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NASA Wants Your Help Analyzing the Juno Probe’s Photos of Jupiter

NASA’s Juno probe has captured some of the most beautiful photos of Jupiter over the years, and now the space agency has formed a citizen scientist project so the public can help with the work of identifying atmospheric features of the gas giant captured by the probe. The project is called Jovian Vortex Hunter and it is led by researchers at the University of Minnesota and NASA with the…
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What is a Full Frame Camera? What You Need to Now

Photographers hear about sensor size all the time, especially when looking to buy a new camera. These include APS-C, Four Thirds, 1″, and of course full-frame, the reference format to which all others are compared. But what is a full frame camera and does it make a…
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Urban Sky’s ‘Microballoons’ Take High-Res Photos from the Stratosphere

Colorado-based aerial remote imaging company Urban Sky has announced that it has begun commercial operations to provide full-color imagery from its “microballoon” platform that photographs the Earth from the stratosphere. The company says it has developed the world’s first reusable stratospheric balloon that is capable of collecting multiple types of remote sensing data from…
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Photographer Creates Epic Night Sky Panorama Using Ordinary Cameras

Photographer Samy Olabi spent a total of 70 nights over the course of four years capturing 12,200 photos that took a combined 2.2 million seconds to expose in order to capture the night sky using a mixture of DSLRs and mirrorless cameras. Olabi is an accomplished astrophotographer who previously shot miniaturized scenes using the real Milky Way Galaxy as a backdrop. Over the last four…
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Sandmarc’s New Mini Slider is Made for the iPhone and Action Cameras

Sandmarc has announced a compact and lightweight cinema-style camera slider designed for use with the iPhone and action cameras. The new Cinema Slider is made out of a combination of carbon fiber and aluminum, which the company says makes it both light and strong. The combination of the two alloys makes for a durable and strong slider, which is also small enough to be easily portable…
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