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Re: Mysterious Streamers (fwd)



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Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:05:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: William Beaty <billb@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Mysterious Streamers (fwd)

On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Tesla list wrote:

> From: C. Sibley <a37chevy@xxxxxxxxx>
> The exposure was set to 1 second.  It is very possibly a street light.
> I'll have to go outside and take a look but there is a light in that
> general direction.  Still seems strange since the coil itself is so
> clear in the picture - as though the camera didn't move...


Quite clearly the xenon flash fired.   It created the bright white
reflections on the coil and toroid.   If the shutter remained open in
darkness, then only the distant houses and streetlights would show up.


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