it will not surprise anyone, but we do the same thing in casual astrophotography. one time i was messing with my planetarium app and figured out this was gonna happen at 4am, so i made the effort
Fun fact: many of the prettiest photos taken by robotic spacecraft were similarly framed ahead of time by humans using simulators of view geometry to pick when the spacecraft should shoot the photo. Case in point: this photo of Europa over Jupiter from New Horizons science.nasa.gov/image-detail...
Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️⚧️ Uranus Expert
What I like best about the Artemis II photos is that it was taken by actual humans. An actual person had to frame it and manually adjust settings. It's their own artistic rendition of what they thought looked best at the time, something no probe, rover or unmanned spacecraft can take. it's art
