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Originally posted by Ghost375
Originally posted by NeoVain
The sun is currently down where i live (sweden) but please, can anyone try to do the same?
Switch camera into negative/infrared and take some photos of the sun, see if you get the same result. If it is just a lens flare in that shot it should not be repeatable right?
edit on 2-9-2011 by NeoVain because: (no reason given)
first off, negative and infrared are completely different things. I don't know of any phones that have infrared sensors.
and Lens flares will always be repeatable. Every time you take a picture of the sun direcetly with your phone a lens flare will appear. the lens flare will appear in different locations depending on what angle your phone is, but it will almost always be there.
edit on 2-9-2011 by Ghost375 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by NeoVain
As long as the Sun is in the same position in the frame, the lens flare will be in the same position in the frame.
Originally posted by Chadwickus
reply to post by Phage
I would have thought even a slight change in angle of the camera would move the lens flare around a fair bit, whilst the sun would still appear to be in the same spot in the frame.
I'm thinking like the Sydney UFO from a while back.
Originally posted by NeoVain
Originally posted by Chadwickus
reply to post by Phage
I would have thought even a slight change in angle of the camera would move the lens flare around a fair bit, whilst the sun would still appear to be in the same spot in the frame.
I'm thinking like the Sydney UFO from a while back.
Agree this is the same conception i have with lens flares. They are based on the angle the sun ray hit the lens, so skewing the angle a bit will completely change the lens flare.
Phage, are you perhaps the disinfo agent as some people on these forums suspect, saying this so that we will diiscard our own findings instead of taking them seriously? please explain.
Originally posted by realitytango
reply to post by shadowreborn89
i just took a few photos and realized that when i had the camera pointed at the sun there was ciccular object at difernt bpositions when i moved the camera, so my conclusion is that its lense flar and there for its bull.
Originally posted by stereologist
This must be the 100th thread about people not understanding what a junky camera is placed in cell phones.
Originally posted by stereologist
reply to post by NeoVain
If there were a large object, i.e. planet sized, near the Sun its mass would affect the positions of the known planets and thus reveal itself. Amateur astronomers would realize quickly that the planets were off. Also, amateurs and pros would detect this object easily.
There is no new object out there. It would have been detected as it came into the solar system probably years ago.
Hmm i agree.. good cap indeed.. well if we get lucky enough maybe it will show and ppl can get photos while its still approaching
Originally posted by Greensage
This morning when I was outside, just as the Sun was rising, Venus was bright and high in the sky. I could even still see her as the Sun was shining!
The position would have been about the 2 p.m. position and was in a near direct line along the Sun's path!
So I say it is Venus! Awesome! As for the "wings", I would guess that since the Sun is beyond the planet itself the phone was able to see the cast-off of the Sun's solar rays.
It is an excellent picture and interesting to note since we might be able to capture ELE-nin during the day on film this same way once it passes a bit further this way!