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Mendel reacted to Hevach's post in the thread Rare things that have been documented much better than UFOs with
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To my eternal disappointment both Dildo and Spread Eagle are on Trinity Bay, and Placenta is clear on the other side or the island on Placenta Bay. All three as well as Conception Bay are within day trip range as long as you don't want to stop... -
Gary C reacted to Ann K's post in the thread Claim: Cell phones are bad at photographing things in the sky at night (such as UAP) with Like.
I would not be surprised to see that colors don't reproduce in the photo the same way they looked to the naked eye. For starters, the iris of your eye adjusts to the overall brightness of the surroundings, while a camera just sees a limited... -
Ann K replied to the thread Rare things that have been documented much better than UFOs.@Mendel Well, here's an improbable one currently in the news - -
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HoaxEye replied to the thread Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey.They don't calculate FWHM from photographic plates, but from digitalized high-resolution scans. They carefully estimate intensity from density and fit stellar profiles. With these you can derive an effective FWHM although it's not pure "seeing"... -
Gary C reacted to MapperGuy's post in the thread Claim: Cell phones are bad at photographing things in the sky at night (such as UAP) with
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What was needed in many videos was the ability to turn off Auto-Focus. How often do we see the nice crisp image of something disappear into a blob when the auto-focus starts zooming back and forth "hunting" for better focus. The ability to set... -
Gary C reacted to Trailblazer's post in the thread Claim: Cell phones are bad at photographing things in the sky at night (such as UAP) with Like.
I upgraded from an iPhone X to an iPhone 14 Pro last year, and the biggest difference I noticed with the camera is how good the night mode is. You can take really quite decent photos of stars, handheld. This is the Big Dipper over my tent. You...
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Gary C reacted to MyMatesBrainwashed's post in the thread Claim: Cell phones are bad at photographing things in the sky at night (such as UAP) with Like.
Is a photograph that doesn't look like it did to the naked eye a good or bad photograph?
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Gary C reacted to jarlrmai's post in the thread Claim: Cell phones are bad at photographing things in the sky at night (such as UAP) with Agree.
The effects of the aurora fill the entire sky, a a plane for example etc is tiny dot for a lot of phone cameras. Then you add to that that because it is so small the camera doesn't really "know" anything is there and all sorts of compression...
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HoaxEye reacted to jdog's post in the thread Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey with Like.
I could be wrong, but as far as I can tell the original POSS-1 plates still exist, along with first-generation copies. According to Caltech's archive page showing they retain photographic prints from POSS-1: "The original glass plates are stored...
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flarkey reacted to autisticbruv's post in the thread Welcome Thread - New Members Post Here with Like.
hi everyone, i'm autistic, hobby photographer, open-minded skeptic i really like ufo stories but absolutely hate all these hoaxes and lies surrounding it, when i was surfing youtube found Mick's channel and "sneezingmonkey" and really liked it... -
AIt's worse than you first thought - their tendrils are everhere, they've infiltrated eastern Europe too! It looks like I'm going to need to build an anti-bunny bunny-suit out of HEPA filters!
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AIf Big ChemBunny can silence you on Nextdoor, they are more powerful than we thought.
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HoaxEye reacted to flarkey's post in the thread Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey with Like.
They appear to have used digital scans (again) of the Hamburger Sternwarte Großer Schmidtspiegel 1.2-m camera. One issue with the Palomar scans was that it was impossible to check the original plates for emulsion artefacts becasue they had all...
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HoaxEye replied to the thread Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey.Perhaps interesting side note: The Schmidt telescope is called a "camera" because it was specifically designed as an astrophotographic instrument intended solely to capture images on photographic plates or film, rather than for direct visual...
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FatPhil reacted to John J.'s post in the thread Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey with Like.
Don't get me wrong; I have no expectation whatsoever that the Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability will find any of Beatrice Villarroel's satellites. I'm expecting that future system to debunk them "real soon now". Well, within a few years. I...
