Moonlight, Starlight, Sunlight, and Lightning.

Why is there a difference in light? The Differences of Moonlight, Sunlight, Starlight, and Lightning...

There's a certain fascination with the full moon, and I feel emotional when I take photos of the moon. I took a picture titled “Earth to Moon” on Kodak slide film that won a contest in Photo Life Magazine. A brief description of how I took the photo in 1987 is still valid for digital cameras today, even though they are much better at low-light resolution than film.

I put my camera with a flash onto a tripod and set the exposure on the “bulb” setting, which leaves the shutter open until you release it. Then, I manually fire the flash to expose the car. Next, I enter the car in the dark without turning on the door light or headlights. I press the brakes with my left foot and push the gas to drive up the dark country road so the brake lights stay on. Then, I turn around in the dark and return to the camera to close the shutter. If another car comes, I turn on my lights and go back to do it again. That's why finding a county road with no traffic at night is essential. It would have been easier if I had an assistant to operate the camera, but he would have been the photographer.? The following week, I took a similar photo of a friend driving his sports car.

However, the moon is added to the photo in the darkroom to the correct position in the composition. When I made this photo, the internet didn't exist, and printing color images in the darkroom was done in total darkness. Using modern technology, you can take fantastic photographs. A digital camera can set the flash automatically for the exposure, and you can remotely close the shutter. However, you must use Photoshop or another program to add the moon. When you see amazing images of moonscape photography at night, realize it's probably a double exposure created in Photoshop. The full moon reflects a lot of light from the sun, so you need a fast exposure, or you will overexpose the moon’s surface. However, you must add more exposure to get the details of the surrounding landscape.?

Light From the Moon

In previous newsletters, I explained the physics of light and how our eyes see the world. A? light source must shine on the environment, and then electrons in matter emit photons that enter our eyes. The photons are frequencies of electronic light containing the colors and details of the electrons in materials.?

The moon receives light from two sources, which give us moonlight. The Sun shines on the moon’s surface, which has no atmosphere. The light is reflected from the Sun to Earth, but the “moonlight” comes from the material on the moon and contains “electronic” light from the moon's surface. For us to see the moon’s surface, the sunlight reacts with the electrons in the moonscape, emitting “electronic” light. In addition, the Earth reflects a small amount of light to the moon. During a total eclipse of the moon, it looks reddish from Earth's reflection. However, normally, the reflected light from the Sun is overpowering, except during the moonrise when the reflected sunlight and the moon’s electronic light are in balance.

Furthermore, our eyes must balance the exposure like a camera to see the moon’s surface. When the moon is higher in the sky, it's nighttime, and the reflected sunlight overpowers our vision. Our eyes can see electronic light, the source light, and reflected light at the same time. For example, you can see a car’s headlights and the Sun reflecting from a surface, and at the same time, you can see the car’s details with the electronic light. But at night, without moonlight, standing on a dark road, you only see the light source of a car's headlights.

Lightning Photography?

The most spectacular type of lightning occurs when storm clouds create a positive charge and the energy discharges to a negative ground source. Lightning creates a mini plasma event from the high electric current flowing to the earth. In this case, plasma is a state of matter created by electrons. Typically, the flash of light lasts a fraction of a second but can last for a few seconds.?

We can see the environment during a longer flash of lightning because electrons in the landscape receive high-frequency light and emit electronic photons, allowing us to see colors at night. I witnessed this phenomenon while living in the country without street lights. It showcases a breathtaking moment of nature's wonder. To photograph lightning takes a lot of luck and timing. For your safety, stay indoors and place your camera on a tripod, facing the flashes of light. Turn off the room lights to minimize reflections from the window. Try to guess when the next bolt happens. Use a wide-angle lens and set the exposure to a few seconds, the ISO at 200, the lens at f/8, and the manual focus to infinity. Try different exposures, and then wish for good luck…

Astrophotography and Light

On the subject of nighttime photography, let's discuss starlight and galaxies. These are images of light sources instead of reflections or electronic light. Imagine the images we see of the Sun, showing solar sunspots. They are images of the sun after the overpowering sunlight has been filtered out. Stars and galaxies are far away, and the light source is very faint. So why does a star look red or blue??

Einstein said starlight has been traveling so long that its frequency has shifted to red or blue by a force called the Doppler effect. Consider that source light is quantum energy, which is massless, and its frequency is unaffected by physical forces. Moreover, using critical thinking, the idea that starlight has shifted its frequency by losing or gaining energy seems unreasonable. Starlight is a light source, not electronic light.?

Furthermore, light is invisible unless it lands on a surface or enters our eyes. We can see a light source, but let's consider why stars have color. The stars may be younger or older, bigger or smaller, and have different frequencies. Perhaps the star is a red dwarf or a giant blue star.?

It's easy to look at the spectroscopy wavelengths of starlight and point to the colors of light instead of thinking about how a star's light source can have different frequencies of color. An object has color because it emits electronic photons containing color information. A star is a light source that emits a signature light depending on the atomic reactions of atoms in the star. Even LED light bulbs are sold with different frequencies of light, thus, I am suspicious of Einstein's explanation.?

Photography of the Universe

Have you seen the fantastic images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope? You may not know that the telescope captures infrared light, an invisible frequency, and then they add color using Photoshop or a similar process. So, what they show us is not reality. Moreover, the images are two-dimensional, so near and far stars appear in proximity.

Can the redshift of starlight measure how long the light has traveled? Using Einstein's redshift theory, scientists have measured that some stars are as old as the universe, which doesn't make sense. Remember that a light year doesn't measure time. Scientists estimate the distance light has been traveling by measuring its redshift. Then, they conclude that they are measuring time by the same math. Using the same process to measure distance and time, is not a scientific method. Is the redshift of light real, or does the star emit red light? Mathematicians and astronomers may struggle to understand the physics of time and the nature of quantum energy.?

For example, they state that the JWST telescope sees billions of years into the past, so telescopes are time machines. These headlines capture our attention, but they fuel people to believe in time travel. The absolute truth is that we see light in the present moment of the universe. It has been traveling a long time to reach us, and the star might not exist anymore, but that's because of the travel duration; it's not about seeing the past. All we can see is a light source, nothing else. If a planet 66 million light years away sees our planet, they don't see dinosaurs; they see a light source from an asteroid explosion. It's not time travel. You might dismiss my ideas as irrational, but critical thinking points to scientists' unproven theories.?

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