The Krankie Returns
Central Defender
My quote was very much tongue in cheek Dave. I’m not a flat earth conspiracy theorist at all. I was just coming out with something that our resident wum on this thread might say.Images like that one are in a way digitally manipulated. Each 'dash' of stars is about 18 degrees long, which means a 72 minute exposure. With UK skies, that would be a really washed out picture if taken as one. But if you take lots of 2-3 minute exposures then load them into a stacking program, then it merges them together and gives those results. If you look closely at the outer trails then you can see a couple of small gaps where there was a small delay in the camera between one frame and the next.
It is a legitimate photographic technique and you are not inventing any data. It is much the same as just turning up the brightness or a mobile phone automatically stitching photos together to make a panorama. But the nutters look at stuff like that and say "processed means it is invalid, processed means drawn freehand in MS paint". I pity them.
If anyone has a DSLR and a tripod and fancies doing some star trails, it is quite a fun project to do. Let me know and I'll stick something in the photography section.
Even people like Hitler, who was considered to be not very nice and didn't really play by international rules, still toed the party line on this one.