Black Sphere Moves Rapidly In Microseconds
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Location: Toronto, CA
Date: July 5, 2010
Description: There was a power outage (no electricity)
and I decided to go for a walk and take a few pictures. It was about
7pm and the sun was going down, and the available light was not much
for the ground but the sky was still quite bright.
I decided to take a few pictures but to make them work I decided to
make multiple exposures and produce HDR image later.
The camera can be set for bracketed exposure, and when set for high-speed
multiple captures, when the button is pressed the shutter fires automatically
3 times in about a second, capturing 3 separate images at different
exposures.
When I was developing the images I noticed something strange on the
least exposed frame, and soon after that I found it on the mid-exposed
frame (on the brightest frame all of the sky was overexposed and it
would have not been possible to show there).
The images are taken in the sequence Mid-exposure, Low, High.
The object looks spherical or diamond to me, on the mid-exposure it
is on the left side of the sun and shows reflection from it, on the
right side is shows the illumination from the sun, but the reflection
is not that noticeable.
Credit: MUFON
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