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peeweekid OP t1_jdw6e23 wrote

Reply to comment by Euphoric_Station_763 in This is what 7 minutes of exposure time looks like on a dark, moonless night at Zabriskie Point, Death Valley (USA)! by peeweekid

Think about it, the light I captured is millions of years old already 🤯

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phunkydroid t1_jdwqiy0 wrote

Most of it is not, the milky way isn't millions of light years across.

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Euphoric_Station_763 t1_jdxeqev wrote

I’m actually talking about shutter speed. Like holding it open Long enough with aid of a tripod to accumulate time and light so that it can be burned onto film to where you can see things that can’t be seen at the speed of light by the naked eye. But I’m just a time traveler from 1977.

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peeweekid OP t1_jdxfufx wrote

Oh yes, it's quite crazy how much we can capture which we can't see ourselves!

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Euphoric_Station_763 t1_jdxu95k wrote

And yes, you are right; it takes millions of years for that “light” to escape the Sun’s gravitational pull and travel to Earth. Once it escapes it gets here in 8.3 seconds or so. Light must love getting away after such a long gestation.

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