Can you tell what it is yet?

[ovenpaa]

A stunning image captured in the early 50's (First hint) An event most adults of the modern world will be aware of (second hint) but can you tell what it is and even better the name of camera used?

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[Mike357]

Atomic particle?

[ovenpaa]

Not quite as it is somewhat larger, many feet across in fact.

[spud]

think i got this one


is it an infa red photo taken from an infa red camera of an atmoic test on easter island

if not iis it baby beckham in the womb

[Christel]

think i got this one


is it an infa red photo taken from an infa red camera of an atmoic test on easter island

if not iis it baby beckham in the womb

:lol: :lol: :lol:

[ovenpaa]

The picture was shot from Operation Tumbler-Snapper (1952; kiloton range). Roughly 1 ms after detonation. Visible along the bottom of the fireball's surface are what have been referred to as 'rope tricks'. Absorption of thermal energy by the tower's guy wires result in such spike-like extensions.

The photograph was shot by a Rapatronic camera built by EG&G. Since each camera could record only one exposure on a sheet of film, banks of four to 10 cameras were set up to take sequences of photographs. The average exposure time was three millionths of a second. The cameras were last used at the Test Site in 1962."

http://simplethinking.com/home/rapatronic_3.shtml

[Robin128]

Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds...

[ovenpaa]

Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds...

J. Robert Oppenheimer