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Out of all the images and videos I've seen from Artemis II, this is the most incredible. Not because it's the best quality, but because it feels distinctly human.
The shakiness, the awkward focusing, the sound of other people in the background... A human explorer took this video, and this is exactly what he saw.
That iPhone video is the farthest a consumer smartphone has ever been from Earth. Roughly 250,000 miles away, handheld through a docking hatch window, at 8x zoom with no modifications.
Apollo 8's Earthrise was shot on a Hasselblad 500EL that NASA had torn apart and rebuilt. Custom lubricants that wouldn't off-gas in vacuum. 70mm Ektachrome film. A 250mm Zeiss Sonnar lens on a bespoke camera body with motorized film advance. 1968 peak-of-engineering, purpose-built for one job.
Reid shot his version on an iPhone 17 Pro Max. 200mm equivalent focal length at 8x. f/2.8. The same phone shipping to Apple stores this week.
The 8x view looks close to the human eye because the tetraprism folds the optical path inside a sensor the size of a fingernail. Apple spent a decade compressing what used to require a 250mm Zeiss barrel into 4mm of stacked glass plus computational denoising.
The four astronauts went 252,756 miles from Earth. The device that documented the view sits on your nightstand.
Only one chance in this lifetime…
Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.
I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.
Earthset.
The Artemis II crew captured this view of an Earthset on April 6, 2026, as they flew around the Moon. The image is reminiscent of the iconic Earthrise image taken by astronaut Bill Anders 58 years earlier as the Apollo 8 crew flew around the Moon.
The Orion spacecraft successfully separated from the upper stage of the rocket, and the "proximity operations" test is underway. The Artemis II astronauts are manually piloting Orion similarly to how they would if they were docking with another spacecraft.