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From the article: "This is 1/100,000,000th of a second after the first photo." A 100 millionth of a light-second is about 10 feet, the tower was 100 feet. So
by SamReidHughes 10y ago
From the article: "This is 1/100,000,000th of a second after the first photo."
A 100 millionth of a light-second is about 10 feet, the tower was 100 feet. So that couldn't have been the time between exposures, and they used multiple cameras anyway.
The Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapatronic_camera https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapatronic_camera says the exposure times were several microseconds.
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- lobster_johnson 10y agoI don't think that's the first image in the sequence, just the most famous one. They took a lot of images in sequence. Here they are edited together into a sequence (several series, presumably from multiple tests, unfortunately looks a bit incomplete): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KQp1ox-SdRI https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KQp1ox-SdRI