Comments on: Silent Night, Holy Light? http://www.eternalidol.com/?p=5817 The Greatest Story Never Told Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:11:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: paul devereux http://www.eternalidol.com/?p=5817&cpage=1#comment-43263 paul devereux Thu, 01 Apr 2010 04:55:43 +0000 http://www.eternalidol.com/?p=5817#comment-43263 [...] drug plants, particularly the hallucinogens, an ancient textbook we have not yet reador, more ...Eternal Idol Blog Archive Silent Night, Holy Light?The Greatest Story Never Told ... lights' and related phenomena have been studied in great depth [...] [...] drug plants, particularly the hallucinogens, an ancient textbook we have not yet reador, more …Eternal Idol Blog Archive Silent Night, Holy Light?The Greatest Story Never Told … lights' and related phenomena have been studied in great depth [...]

]]> By: JohnWitts http://www.eternalidol.com/?p=5817&cpage=1#comment-38636 JohnWitts Fri, 25 Dec 2009 10:28:57 +0000 http://www.eternalidol.com/?p=5817#comment-38636 What is the light source at Stonehenge? The only thing I can think of is a car's headlights? What is the light source at Stonehenge? The only thing I can think of is a car’s headlights?

]]> By: Aynslie http://www.eternalidol.com/?p=5817&cpage=1#comment-38613 Aynslie Thu, 24 Dec 2009 22:45:44 +0000 http://www.eternalidol.com/?p=5817#comment-38613 The lights in the Stonehenge photo don't seem to have quite the same quality about them as the others, although all of the photos are stunning. Thanks for sharing the photo and your brief thoughts, Dennis, but--and I say this in the utmost friendly and caring manner--stay off your laptop! Rest, recover, and give your time to that wonderful family of yours. Get well. Enjoy the quiet. Best wishes, everyone, for the holiday season. The lights in the Stonehenge photo don’t seem to have quite the same quality about them as the others, although all of the photos are stunning.

Thanks for sharing the photo and your brief thoughts, Dennis, but–and I say this in the utmost friendly and caring manner–stay off your laptop! Rest, recover, and give your time to that wonderful family of yours. Get well. Enjoy the quiet.

Best wishes, everyone, for the holiday season.

]]> By: Juris http://www.eternalidol.com/?p=5817&cpage=1#comment-38603 Juris Thu, 24 Dec 2009 20:10:04 +0000 http://www.eternalidol.com/?p=5817#comment-38603 Here's a nice link, in Latvia no less! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1117264/Beam-Scientists-left-baffled-mysterious-columns-coloured-light-appear-night-skies.html Here’s a nice link, in Latvia no less!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1117264/Beam-Scientists-left-baffled-mysterious-columns-coloured-light-appear-night-skies.html

]]> By: Juris http://www.eternalidol.com/?p=5817&cpage=1#comment-38602 Juris Thu, 24 Dec 2009 20:05:42 +0000 http://www.eternalidol.com/?p=5817#comment-38602 Dennis - Just saw the post on EI about the Stonehenge lights. Attached picture I took in January 2006 here in Apple Valley with a similar phenomenon. As I recall when I looked into it I found an explanation involving certain kinds of "flat" snow particles along with various other weather, etc., conditions, that reflect the lights in a certain way. Don't know how this might apply to the Stonehenge picture - question is what is the source of the lights? Ground illumination within Stonehenge? Do not know. Juris <a href="http://www.eternalidol.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Lights.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5848" title="Lights" src="http://www.eternalidol.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Lights.jpg" alt="" width="580" height="387" /></a> Dennis -

Just saw the post on EI about the Stonehenge lights. Attached picture I took in January 2006 here in Apple Valley with a similar phenomenon.

As I recall when I looked into it I found an explanation involving certain kinds of “flat” snow particles along with various other weather, etc., conditions, that reflect the lights in a certain way.

Don’t know how this might apply to the Stonehenge picture – question is what is the source of the lights? Ground illumination within Stonehenge? Do not know.

Juris

]]> By: Alex Down http://www.eternalidol.com/?p=5817&cpage=1#comment-38598 Alex Down Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:40:47 +0000 http://www.eternalidol.com/?p=5817#comment-38598 It's certainly an intriguing and tantalizing photo, as Dennis says, and wonderfully appropriate for Christmas Eve. Without wanting to break the Christmas spell, I'm surprised that no one else has seen this phenomenon, even the guards who're there every night. Yet some Japanese gentleman strolls up on his Stonehenge-Wells-Bath tour and grabs an amazing image that no one else has seen before or since ... I wonder if it's possible that the honourable Japanese gentleman had one of the newly popular Japanese DSLR cameras (this is 2001), and had adapted it for IR (infrared) photography by removing the infrared blocker in front of the CCD and replacing it with a filter that removes visible light. IR photos from DSLRs have a red cast to them. I'm no expert, but this looks like IR photography to me, perhaps not even shot at night. The smearing of the light can be caused by moving the camera vertically, probably with a light mist at night, or rain or even snow, while there's an obvious source of IR radiation on the tops of many of the stones - birds roosting. We've all seen crowds of birds on the tops of the stones in daylight and at dusk. But it seems churlish to be too prosaic about this. It's a great image, and has made my Christmas. Thanks for the picture and story, Dennis! A very Happy Christmas to you and all on EI. It’s certainly an intriguing and tantalizing photo, as Dennis says, and wonderfully appropriate for Christmas Eve. Without wanting to break the Christmas spell, I’m surprised that no one else has seen this phenomenon, even the guards who’re there every night. Yet some Japanese gentleman strolls up on his Stonehenge-Wells-Bath tour and grabs an amazing image that no one else has seen before or since …

I wonder if it’s possible that the honourable Japanese gentleman had one of the newly popular Japanese DSLR cameras (this is 2001), and had adapted it for IR (infrared) photography by removing the infrared blocker in front of the CCD and replacing it with a filter that removes visible light. IR photos from DSLRs have a red cast to them. I’m no expert, but this looks like IR photography to me, perhaps not even shot at night.

The smearing of the light can be caused by moving the camera vertically, probably with a light mist at night, or rain or even snow, while there’s an obvious source of IR radiation on the tops of many of the stones – birds roosting. We’ve all seen crowds of birds on the tops of the stones in daylight and at dusk.

But it seems churlish to be too prosaic about this. It’s a great image, and has made my Christmas. Thanks for the picture and story, Dennis! A very Happy Christmas to you and all on EI.

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