by Space Ninja » Mon Jun 25, 2012 6:27 am
Hi! I was messing around with my phone this afternoon and I decided to take a picture of the Moon.
Here's what I got.
As you can see, there's something in the bottom left corner. The camera's flash was disabled, so I don't think it was a piece of dust or something flying by. I checked Google Sky Map, and
here's what it showed me at the time I took the picture (June 24th, 4:16 PM Pacific Time).
So my best guess is that my phone camera somehow got a picture of Mars. I'm fairly skeptical, though. For one, I wasn't able to get it again in subsequent shots. Also, based on a rough calculation using an equation for resolution that I picked up in my physics class last semester, the camera's aperture should be somewhere in the neighborhood of twenty times too small to see Mars. So if it's not Mars, what is it? And if it is, how did my lousy phone camera manage to see it once?
Hi! I was messing around with my phone this afternoon and I decided to take a picture of the Moon. [url=http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c204/Spam7865/20120624_161602.jpg]Here[/url]'s what I got.
As you can see, there's something in the bottom left corner. The camera's flash was disabled, so I don't think it was a piece of dust or something flying by. I checked Google Sky Map, and
[url=http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c204/Spam7865/SC20120624-222852.png]here[/url]'s what it showed me at the time I took the picture (June 24th, 4:16 PM Pacific Time).
So my best guess is that my phone camera somehow got a picture of Mars. I'm fairly skeptical, though. For one, I wasn't able to get it again in subsequent shots. Also, based on a rough calculation using an equation for resolution that I picked up in my physics class last semester, the camera's aperture should be somewhere in the neighborhood of twenty times too small to see Mars. So if it's not Mars, what is it? And if it is, how did my lousy phone camera manage to see it once?