How is it possible to see the lights so brightly?, what about clouds?
heres an image:
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2006-11-26 06:55:30 · 5 answers · asked by Tyler C 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
it was made from many different pictures, they take them every night and just wait till the get a clear one for every area.
2006-11-26 06:57:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, they're real. The photographers waited until there was a clear shot. The lights are that bright because there are actually so much lights in the continent! If you've ever gone up in an airplane, you'll see all those blinding lights, so from higher up, they'll still be seen, but not as bright.
So, they're real.
2006-11-26 15:16:34 · answer #2 · answered by aximili12hp 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep, they are real. The longer the exposure, the more light you get - which is why the Hubble space telescope spent two weeks taking the Deep Field picture.
2006-11-26 15:32:10 · answer #3 · answered by eri 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is more than one of these and none is a single photograph. Some are mosaics of smaller photographs, and some are digital "images" (graphs, really) contrived from population data.
2006-11-26 20:23:21 · answer #4 · answered by grotereber 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The image is a mosaic.
2006-11-26 14:58:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋