[Geysers] Old Faithful night shot (correct link)

[Moose, Allan E.]

Personally, I'm skeptical that this is an actual photograph. Rather, I think it was a "manufactured" (i.e. Photo Shopped) picture.  My evidence for this is as follows:

(1) In order to get a picture of the Milky Way with that much detail and coloring, and especially the reddish pink blobs that are likely gaseous nebulae, you would need to do a time exposure with the camera mounted on an equatorial mount.

(2) If there was enough light to show the tree line as clearly as shown, then during a time exposure there Old Faithful would have put up numerous steam puffs that would have left a steam smear in the picture. If you have the camera stationary to get Old Faithful without smears, then a time exposure results in star trails.

(3) Look at the top of the steam cloud from Old Faithful. To me that appears totally bogus. The structure of the water flow within the water column during an OF eruption is very different from what is shown and the steam rising off the column does not feather out into wisps as shown.

Allan
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From: geysers-bounces at wwc.edu [geysers-bounces at wwc.edu] On Behalf Of Lotus Baker [lotusb3 at earthlink.net]
Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 10:44 AM
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Subject: Re: [Geysers] Old Faithful night shot (correct link)

The curious thing about this otherwise beautiful picture, is that it
doesn't quite make
sense.  The photographer was facing south (give or take a few degrees) in
late twilight.
>From that vantage point, there should be benches and a ranger station in
the background.   I've tried to rationalize this by saying it was an
extremely low camera
angle, but I don't believe that totally explains it.  Any thoughts?

Keith Baker


> [Original Message]
> From: Greg W <ikscx at yahoo.com>
> To: geyser observation reports <geysers at wwc.edu>
> Date: 8/8/07 5:03:48 PM
> Subject: Re: [Geysers] Old Faithful night shot (correct link)
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>  - - - - And the evident ignorance (geyser wise) of
> the caption writer was surprising.
>
>
>
> --- Kevin & Sherri Leany <ksleany at cox.net> wrote:
>
> > Here is a great night shot of Old Faithful on the
> > NASA web page (with the correct link this time).
> > Beautiful night sky.
> >
> > http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070807.html
> >
> > Kevin Leany
> > ksleany at cox.net>
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