posted on Jul, 10 2011 @ 09:09 AM
Lens artifact. It is difficult to take a picture of a bright object in a dark background without getting internal reflections of the image in
the lens.
It is good that you are trying to learn, because knowing these things will allow you to discern the ordinary from the extraordinary.
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P.S. The 'Ghost Horseman' that was in some video or another (Egypt? Libya?) a while back, is also a lens artifact. If you will notice there is a
bright fire in the upper left corner, the shape of which is lost in the glare, but if a person could capture an image of it and manipulate it they
will see that the 'horseman' is a reversed image of the the fire and moves exponentially faster away across the field of view, when the camera sweeps
along even after the fire is out of view because the convex lens still can 'see' it, even if the camera cannot.
edit on 7/10/2011 by czygyny because: hit button too soon!