Friday, July 17, 2015

Orb Window Peekers?

Photo date: June 17, 2015. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below shows two orbs that look almost as if they were peering into building windows. Were they curious to see what was inside?

peeker

The photo above was cropped from the larger photo below, showing a building in New York. I slightly reduced the width of the photo, but the height has not been changed.  This means the orb on the left is 10% of the original photo height -- way too big to be a speck of dust. The area just in front of my camera lens is about 15,000 microns (the same as 15 millimeters), but natural dust particles in outdoor air are only about 1 micron in size. So a typical speck of dust in outdoor air can block no more than 1/15,000 of a photo's height (a fraction 1500 times smaller than 10% of a photo).

big orb

There was no fog, mist, rain, or precipitation on this night.

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