Starship Asterisk*

Hey TRL.

Unless you were photographing that pretty view of the sun illuminating the underside of clouds with a piece of glass or other reflecting material or fog in front of your lens, I doubt very much that any sort of auto focusing beam contributed to the color or realism of that picture.

Good question Chris. I have an old Cannon Powershot and the LED on that thing produces a red-orange light much the same color as what is seen in the photograph. Does it fire this light when the flash isn't on? I don't think I've seen any cameras (including my own Powershot) that use the autofocus as...

Hey Asterisk*/APOD folks. Some pretty interesting guesses.... But I do have a question re: these types of images - that is the type of image that gets APOD readers throwing guesses out there as to causes for things seen in images. Is there ever a definite answer/follow up to the questions posed by t...

Good point TRL and others of the auto focus beam faith. As I looked at the picture something was eerily familliar abut that color. One of the earlier posters mentioned the photo was taken with an S-100, a canon camera. I picked up my canon a-70 pointed at my comp screen and pressed the button half w...

Hello. I think that glarysun got it right. I had also used google-earth to get exactly the same apparent altitute, orientation and angle as the photograph. After comparing the google-earth view with the APOD photograph (using Alt-Tab to go back and forth like a primitive blink-comparator), it seems ...