These images are so vivid that I'm wondering if they're real, "touched up", composites, and/or outright fakes. Any opinions? http://www.iww.is/art/shs/pages/thumbs.html
Chris, after personally seeing the "Great Aurora of 2002", from the middle of the Salt Lake valley, I wouldn't suspect any of those auroral images of fakery. Timothy Leary never saw a better light show. C. --- Chris Clark <cpclark@xmission.com> wrote:
These images are so vivid that I'm wondering if they're real, "touched up", composites, and/or outright fakes. Any opinions?
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I don't know, but they look kind of odd to me. It's hard to reconcile their sharpness with the length of exposure that's needed. Some of them just look strange. -- Joe
You're biased due to your latitude. Far-north aurorae can be MUCH brighter than what we are used to. Shorter exposures are indeed possible. Our aurorae typically hug the horizon, where atmospheric extinction takes a heavy toll. I'm reminded of a line from an old Jimmy Buffet song: "Don't try to describe a KISS concert if you've never seen one" and he's right, I'm at a loss for words. C. --- Joe Bauman <bau@desnews.com> wrote:
I don't know, but they look kind of odd to me. It's hard to reconcile their sharpness with the length of exposure that's needed. Some of them just look strange. -- Joe
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