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^9-22-2024. I finally got in the spa tonight. I really should do it more often. It's hard to stay uptight when you're in hot water. That's kind of funny. I just love to see the stars and since the moon won't be up for a while they were pretty bright. I keep looking at that smudge in the picture that I cannot see with the naked eye and I've I tried to figure out what it is. It shows up in all my pictures. Maybe Raptor knows. That is looking to the west and slightly northwest.
I came across this in my files yesterday. I took this coming back to CONUS from Europe. It was the first time I was able to see it as the flight path and cloud cover must cooperate!
This is the Chubb Crater or it's proper name Pingualuit crater. Well pronounced and well preserved impact crater, 3.44 km in diameter. Formed some 1.4 million years ago, in the Pleistocene. Rims of the crater rise 160 m above the tundra. The depth of the crater is 400 m, it is partly filled with 267 m deep Pingualuit lake. Lake water is one of the purest in the world.
^9-22-2024. I finally got in the spa tonight. I really should do it more often. It's hard to stay uptight when you're in hot water. That's kind of funny. I just love to see the stars and since the moon won't be up for a while they were pretty bright. I keep looking at that smudge in the picture that I cannot see with the naked eye and I've I tried to figure out what it is. It shows up in all my pictures. Maybe Raptor knows. That is looking to the west and slightly northwest.
I don't understand, Patty. What smudge? If you can't see it with the naked eye, how do you know it's there?
The photo I posted is useless in seeing what I saw. It was a 6-second night photo so the cellphone camera saw things I couldn't.
Is this useful? I found it somewhere.
Can a phone camera see things which the naked eye can't see? Yes, a phone camera can sometimes capture images that the naked eye cannot see, depending on various factors:
Low Light Conditions: Many phone cameras have advanced sensors and image processing capabilities that allow them to capture images in low light conditions where the human eye may struggle to see details.
Infrared and UV Photography: Some phone cameras can be modified or used with special filters to capture infrared or ultraviolet light, which is outside the visible spectrum for humans. This allows for unique photography effects, such as capturing heat signatures or certain types of flowers that reflect UV light.
High Dynamic Range (HDR): HDR processing can help capture more detail in both bright and dark areas of a scene, revealing details that might be missed by the naked eye.
Macro Photography: With the right lens attachments, a phone camera can take close-up photos of tiny objects, revealing details that are not easily visible to the human eye.
While standard phone cameras aren't designed to see beyond the visible spectrum, these techniques and modifications can enhance the camera's ability to capture images that reveal more than what we can see directly.
Last edited by buckeyesue; 09-23-2024 at 09:45 AM.
Can a phone camera see things which the naked eye can't see?Yes, a phone camera can sometimes capture images that the naked eye cannot see, depending on various factors:
Low Light Conditions: Many phone cameras have advanced sensors and image processing capabilities that allow them to capture images in low light conditions where the human eye may struggle to see details.
Infrared and UV Photography: Some phone cameras can be modified or used with special filters to capture infrared or ultraviolet light, which is outside the visible spectrum for humans. This allows for unique photography effects, such as capturing heat signatures or certain types of flowers that reflect UV light.
High Dynamic Range (HDR): HDR processing can help capture more detail in both bright and dark areas of a scene, revealing details that might be missed by the naked eye.
Macro Photography: With the right lens attachments, a phone camera can take close-up photos of tiny objects, revealing details that are not easily visible to the human eye.
While standard phone cameras aren't designed to see beyond the visible spectrum, these techniques and modifications can enhance the camera's ability to capture images that reveal more than what we can see directly.
^5-11-2024. My Google Pixel 7 Pro could also see the aurora borealis when my naked eye couldn't.
Noctilucent clouds, also known as polar mesospheric clouds, form in a part of the atmosphere roughly 50 to 86 kilometers (30 to 54 miles) above the surface of our planet. At high latitudes in the summer months, iridescent clouds form some 80 kilometers (50 miles) above the surface of the Earth. Their high altitude allows them to reflect sunlight after the Sun has set. These night-shining, or noctilucent, clouds long puzzled the researchers who studied them, who wondered how they formed. The clouds’ behavior grew even more mysterious over the past two decades as the clouds began to shine more brightly and appear at lower latitudes than they did before.
I took these at 35K feet above 70 degrees north in eastern Canada. A researcher for NASA contacted me as I had a good collection of them with stills and video. These were north of our position up towards the pole. Quite striking in the blackness. Virtually no artificial light on the ground either.
09-22-2024 | 08:38 PM
That's kind of funny. I just love to see the stars and since the moon won't be up for a while they were pretty bright. I keep looking at that smudge in the picture that I cannot see with the naked eye and I've I tried to figure out what it is. It shows up in all my pictures. Maybe Raptor knows. That is looking to the west and slightly northwest. 
