The NASA site does say it is a mosaic, by which I assume it is a mosaic of two photos, one of White Dome-moonlit and one of the aurora, merged together in a photoshop program. http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap121017.html Robert Lieb ________________________________ From: "Lee_Whittlesey at nps.gov" <Lee_Whittlesey at nps.gov> To: Geyser Observation Reports <geysers at lists.wallawalla.edu> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 2:13 PM Subject: Re: [Geysers] great APOD pic!--Faked! My friend Paul Strasser is completely correct here. This "photo" is totally faked and doctored for the reasons he points out and probably more. It is indeed jarring. Lee Whittlesey Park Historian YNP Paul Strasser <upperbasin at comca st.net> To Sent by: 'Geyser Observation Reports' <geysers-bounces@ <geysers at lists.wallawalla.edu> lists.wallawalla. cc edu> Subject Re: [Geysers] great APOD pic! 10/17/2012 09:56 PM Please respond to Geyser Observation Reports <geysers at lists.wa llawalla.edu> Fake. If white dome was that well illuminated it would be by a moon, and no way the aurora and stars would be so nice. And the sky would bed almost blue. I know cuz I have taken photos from there of aurora and the geyser is silhouetted. And look at the treeline - it is painted. It is so 'wrong' that it is jarring. Paul Strasser ----Original Message----- From: geysers-bounces at lists.wallawalla.edu [mailto:geysers-bounces at lists.wallawalla.edu] On Behalf Of Greg Walljasper Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 11:32 PM To: Geyser Reports Subject: [Geysers] great APOD pic! http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1210/geyseraurora_howell_2163.jpg _______________________________________________ Geysers mailing list Geysers at lists.wallawalla.edu _______________________________________________ Geysers mailing list Geysers at lists.wallawalla.edu _______________________________________________ Geysers mailing list Geysers at lists.wallawalla.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: </geyser-list/attachments/20121019/4bd5b1e4/attachment.html>