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by tlc
Tue Aug 18, 2009 1:53 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: The Milky Way Over The Badlands (2009 Aug 18)
Replies: 34
Views: 5603

8-18-09 APOD

This looks fake. The power of any light it would take to actually illuminate the Badlands Wall and cast sharp shadows like that is beyond anything I know of. The foreground is weeds/grass etc and casts shadows on the cutouts behind. The Milky Way looks like it was taken from an earlier APOD shot tha...
by tlc
Wed Aug 05, 2009 2:53 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: A Triple Sunrise Over Gdansk Bay (2009 Aug 04)
Replies: 338
Views: 56091

Re: Cause of Triple Sunrise (APOD 2009 August 4)

The structure of the lenses of cameras (digital or not) and the iris of the camera lens are such that I would expect to see the sun's secondary and tertiary images shaped like the iris shape. That is seen clearly in many photographs where the sun is being reflected within the lens and the hexagonal ...