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Solved: Strange Beam of Light over Mayan Temple and Florida [Lightning + Rolling Shutter Artifact]
The above images are examples of a rolling shutter artifact. A "rolling shutter" means that the image is recorded one row (or column in portrait orientation) at a time, and not simultaneously. This means if the flash is of very short duration, it will only illuminate some pixel columns of the image. Here's what's going on in the first image:
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Man Captures iPhone Photo of Mayan Pyramid Firing Beam Into the Sky
When Los Angeles resident Hector Siliezar visited the ancient Mayan city of Chichen Itza with his family in 2009, he used his iPhone to snap some photos of a pyramid called El Castillo. After snagging a lightning strike in the third shot, Siliezar was surprised to see that he had also captured...
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