"E. L." <nyceddie@webtv.net> wrote in message
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Re: Apollo 8 clip site

Group: alt.alien.visitors Date: Wed, Sep 10, 2003, 10:04pm (EDT-3) From:
Kevin@Quitt.net (Kevin D. Quitt)
There's no controversy. It looks like a panned image from the moon, but
what you refer to as a puff of smoke is pixel-noise. It's an artifact of
the combined effects of low analog resolution (few bits), and aliasing
of the detail against the low digital resolution. You see it in modern
cameras, but to a lesser extent, since both types of resolution are
higher. Of course, it's possible to get more aliasing effects with
higher digital resolution (more pixels), but it isn't likely as
resolution keeps going up.

el: "I've seen some pretty stupid explanations for an unknown but this
one ranks up there with the stupidest.  But, have no fear, the prof. is
here.  I did more than you bunch of wasted-on-drug freaks; I went to the
library and reserved the NOVA: "To The Moon" documentary on DVD and VHS
and when I get the VHS (higher resolution due to compression as on the
DVD, analog beats digital!) I may publish select vidcaps of the scene."
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 More low-res analogue screen caps, eh? Just make 'em REAL
BIG so you see that distortion really good, Ed.

                                                          -Ugly Bob