Re: [Phys-L] Trick photography?

[John Mallinckrodt <ajm@csupomona.edu>]

Nice!

Using data from the film only, I calculate that 1 day = (24.1 ± 0.2) hours 

Using additional data, I find that the photographer is (1.4 ± 0.1) miles away from the silhouette'd scene.

John Mallinckrodt
Cal Poly Pomona

On Mar 1, 2014, at 8:24 AM, Bob Sciamanda wrote:

> If you’ve never seen a tele-video of a distant terrestrial scene silhouetted by a rising moon, look at==>
> http://vimeo.com/58385453.
>
> The casual observer often complains that this must be a manipulated photoshop type trick.
>
> It is an interesting exercise for students to investigate this by calculating, and comparing, the speeds of the terrestrial and lunar images across the camera film/digital sensor.
> More than sufficient data is available from the video clip, its commentary, and known lunar data.
>
> Bob Sciamanda
> Physics, Edinboro Univ of PA (Em)
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