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Re: Mysterious Streamers (fwd)



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Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:31:16 +0100
From: Chris Rutherford <chrismrutherford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Mysterious Streamers (fwd)

Hi All,

I don't think its an insect because if you look closely at it, you can see
mini streamers coming off it.  See pic run through filter.

http://www.hackinghardware.com/tc/evenodderstreamer.JPG

Thanks

Chris

On 8/22/07, Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:51:32 -0700
> From: huil888 <huil888@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Mysterious Streamers (fwd)
>
> Curt -
>
> Here's a possible explanation  for the brightest "traces" consisting of
> multiple linked bright spots.
>
> 1. It looks like this exposure had a an effective "shutter speed" of 1-3
> seconds, and include an "on camera" flash event. The toroids are in-focus,
> and don't show any significant "ghost images" from camera movement
> before/after the flash.
>
> 2.The two bright yellow traces clearly pass in front of the top toroid,
> and
> are therefore not artifacts of some light source (streetlight, etc) far
> behind the coil.
>
> 3. These traces don't look anything like the internal reflections caused
> by
> a bright off-axis light source bouncing off multiple lens surfaces in a
> compound air-spaced lens (like a zoom lens).
>
> 4. The paths of these traces are relatively smooth and continuous, without
> any sudden sharp angular jogs or divergence from a "smooth" trajectory.
>
> 5. One notable aspect of the traces are the regularly spaced dots of
> light,
> slightly smeared, along the axis of the trace.
>
> 6. Where is your spark gap located, what type of gap is it (static,
> rotary,
> etc) and do you know what the break rate is?
>
> 7. I think the evidence suggests that these traces were caused by  insects
> (moths, etc) flying in the vicinity of the coil, illuminated by the
> intense,
> regular flashes of light from the spark gap. If you know the break rate of
> your spark gap, and have a higher-resolution copy of the image so you can
> count the dots in an estimated distance, you can calculate the approximate
> velocity of the insect and see if it "fits" the flying insect hypothesis.
> The increasing distance between dots as the "object" got closer to the
> camera fits the hypothesis.
>
> Regards,
> Scott Hanson
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tesla list" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 8:23 PM
> Subject: Mysterious Streamers (fwd)
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> > Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:04:05 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: C. Sibley <a37chevy@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Mysterious Streamers
> >
> > I ran my big coil for about 50 people last Saturday night.  Today one of
> > the people that were there e-mailed me some pictures.  One of the
> pictures
> > has some really wierd "streamers" in it that I can't explain.
> >
> > http://www.wackorama.com/teslalist/oddstreamers.JPG
> >
> > I didn't notice anythng unusual while running it, but this one picture
> is
> > very odd.  Anyone have any ideas?
> >
> >
> > Curt.
> >
> >
> >
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