Star Reflection Effect on Googlemaps

By yayo in Everything Else on Nov 24, 2006 at 12:38 pm

The glare effect
Seems that the aerial camera took a photo in the just moment when something on the ground threw the sun light rays against it and a star glare effect appeared in the middle of the image.

LinkVia Google Blogoscoped


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  1. XuYu
    Nov 24th, 2006 at 2:51 pm

    “throwed”?

  2. v.dog
    Nov 24th, 2006 at 3:04 pm

    Throwed? Methinks you meant threw.

  3. digitalmarley
    Nov 24th, 2006 at 7:31 pm

    It could just be the sun reflecting of a surface like aluminum flashing at the right angle.

    A star reflection during the day seems a little…how u say…wacky?

  4. digitalmarley
    Nov 24th, 2006 at 7:32 pm

    oops nevermind, miss-read the title, sorry

  5. QueueEwe
    Nov 24th, 2006 at 10:07 pm

    Throwed light rays? Did a fifth-grader write up that blurb?

  6. yayo
    Nov 25th, 2006 at 2:30 am

    Sorry, I’m a foreigner ^^.

  7. guy
    Nov 25th, 2006 at 2:42 pm

    Apparently, this isn’t a physical artefact on the ground at all – it’s where a small hole has been torn in the photographic negative. The star of light you can see is the scanner bulb shining through the hole onto the sensor.

  8. JB
    Nov 26th, 2006 at 5:13 am

    Here’s another one: http://trendbeheer.com/2006/09/16/interdimensional-bling-portal-in-dro nten/

    Both in the Netherlands (Purmerend, Dronten) and yes it an artefact on the ground: a roof reflecting the light of the sun.

    Explanation (in dutch, with pictures) – someone went to check the exact location: http://www.hippopotame.nl/index.asp?id=800


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