By day, Evan Kramer, SM ’22, works on his PhD within the Aero-Astro House Programs Lab, creating a satellite tv for pc tasking algorithm. (His objective is to effectively faucet right into a community of satellites with artificial aperture radar sensors, which may see by way of all climate and illuminationÂ. This might let individuals shortly picture a particular level on Earth within the wake of a pure catastrophe or different emergency.)
The ISS passes over the aero-astro complicated (left) and the Central Utilities Plant, captured by a number of half-second exposures at half-second intervals.
However at evening, there’s likelihood you’ll be able to discover Kramer on an MIT rooftop, capturing the evening sky of Cambridge as you’ve by no means seen it earlier than.
Kramer’s curiosity in astrophotography began in highschool, when he was on the lookout for a option to persuade his mates that observing objects like Jupiter and the moons of Saturn with a telescope was cool. Then he branched out into panorama astrophotography and delved into capturing ultraviolet and infrared in addition to seen mild.
Mild air pollution makes astrophotography in city environments difficult, nevertheless it’s potential with filters and plenty of planning. Kramer composes photographs with acquainted options within the foreground to get individuals’s consideration and make them surprise how they had been taken—and query their assumptions about what can and may’t be seen within the city evening sky.
