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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/836319/posts?page=31#31

Jernigan, who is no longer working for NASA, quizzed the photographer on the aperture of the camera, the direction he faced and the estimated exposure time -- about four to six seconds on the automatic Nikon 880 camera. It was mounted on a tripod, and the shutter was triggered manually.

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[Richard Kimball]

Thanks for that info. A Nikon 880, shooting in the dark, on a four to six second exposure, manually triggered shutter, most likely shooting in high jpg mode (the buffer isn't big enough to shoot multiple frames in tiff format sequentially), at that distance of an object moving that fast would, IMHO, be very unlikely to produce an image without VERY high artifacting. I wouldn't say it's impossible, but highly unlikely that he produced anything that will shed light on what happened.