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Does anyone know when the next series of City Lights with Robson Green is on again
probably in the autumn or next year some time.
Can't wait.
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This is something that I have always wondered but no one could ever tell me. If anyone has noticed when you look at all the city lights they are twinkling. Its not as if someone is turning their lights off and on.
It is because of the air bending the light slightly. Its the same as shining a light through water, but the effects are less pronounced.
I don't know how to take good photos at night, you know, the kind where u can see the city lights really well, and then the other kind is where you take a picture of someone with the city lights in the background and you can see both the subject and the lights well. Now i have a kodak easy share C330, i dont know if such a basic camera can do what i want it to do, but if anyone could give me any tips it would be very much appreciated thank you!
You will need a tripod, and a camera with manual settings. I'm not sure if your camera can do that. You might have to rely on a mode setting. See if you have a night scene mode, or a night portrait mode. Either way, you should use a tripod.
If you can set it to manual, set your ISO as low as it will go, set your aperture small (high number) and your shutter speed slow (1/60 or slower, depending on the scene).
An example would be how when you look at the scenery of the city and the lights seem to be shimmering or twinlkling especially at night
The air (the gases of the atmosphere) is heated unevenly. Heated air expands in volume and is less dense, cooled air contracts in volume and is more dense. The density differential is what causes winds to start and then the moving air currents (of different densities) flowing between you and the far off lights you are observing cause the light to appear to twinkle or move slightly. This is because this light will bend slightly as it passes through the different densities of air.
When I was in 8th grade, my science teacher had a picture of a section of the earth. It was showing where dawn was, and had the view of the city lights from space, but also where the cities no long had their lights on because it was light out. I cannot find it. The closest things I can find are just space view of city lights themselves. Does anyone know what I'm talking about, or what the image is called?
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/L ivingEarth/Images/living_earth.jpg
http://www.anime.ph/images/Gallery/earth .jpg
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