Re: Mysterious Streamers (fwd)

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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 07:57:51 -0400
From: Daniel Kline <daniel_kline@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Mysterious Streamers (fwd)



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> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:38:21 -0400
> From: "Lau, Gary" <Gary.Lau@xxxxxx>
> To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: RE: Mysterious Streamers (fwd)
> 
> The bright
> orange line is from something closer than the other two, not sure just
> how it relates to the others, but it's clearly the same thing.  No
> zebras.

My guess is that the closest orange line was created from a 
back-reflection of the streetlight onto the camera lens itself. If 
that's the case, it would explain how the line seems to be in front of 
the tesla coil: the streetlight image was reflected from the back 
surface of the camera lens to the front surface, and that's what the 
camera saw. It wouldn't take very much movement at all to 'skate' the 
reflection all over the camera lens. I used to have problems when first 
making holograms, from the same effect.

Dan K.