weird lights in the antartic

[BARRY]

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hment=46844:neumayerT_1100.jpg]can anyone explain the weird lights

[Rustynailer]

I can't see the pictures all I get is:-

can anyone explain the weird lights

[Bobby]

That looks like a problem with the image signal. The strange area definely looks like this or an artifact of the camera, certainly doesn't look something real the camera captured.

[Gray-Wolf]

If you've ever seen the sun through the platelets of 'powder snow' then you'll have some idea of how this effect is generated.

I believe WIBs is right in her observation and the depth of the 'whiteout' in progress in the image leads to a very 'expanded' and unusual view of sunlight (like the glow of the sun through fog can look quite big)

[Bobby]

That looks like a problem with the image signal. The strange area definely looks like this or an artifact of the camera, certainly doesn't look something real the camera captured.

Edit: Actually it is indeed a problem with the camera exposure. The distorted patch is where the sun would be, it looks like the sun has blinded the camera out of it's normal capturable range. I have experiened this with my digital camera, in fact anyone can. Just take a photo of the sun directly and there will be lot of distortion of colours and artifacts similar to that. Might damage the camera though.

Nothing else.

[BARRY]

look at the Australian Antarctic web cams and click naumayer on line

[Cookie]

I hope its santa