Comment Re:It's old news... (Score 1) 825
I'm just reporting that it sure LOOKS like the camera was panning diagonally, perhaps because somebody was looking at something lower down and tilted it up to look at the pier again. The overflow then would traverse the image in the opposite direction of the pan, the same as fatigue marks in your eyes would if you looked at an accidental arc lamp.
Other reasons for overflows to travel diagonally would include physical details of the CCD design as well as accidental reflections inside the camera. Other common causes for faint diagonal marks of that sort include hairs floating in front of the camera too close to be in focus. There are many possibilities which do not involve an object (never found) moving diagonally towards or away from the pier, and of those, I find the explanation in which the camera moved and paused just before the image was recorded involves the least bit of coincidence and unexplained entities. But considering the rest of the discussion, I'm not surprised that my suggestion is not taken very seriously.
Other reasons for overflows to travel diagonally would include physical details of the CCD design as well as accidental reflections inside the camera. Other common causes for faint diagonal marks of that sort include hairs floating in front of the camera too close to be in focus. There are many possibilities which do not involve an object (never found) moving diagonally towards or away from the pier, and of those, I find the explanation in which the camera moved and paused just before the image was recorded involves the least bit of coincidence and unexplained entities. But considering the rest of the discussion, I'm not surprised that my suggestion is not taken very seriously.
