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Relativistic photography with a wide aperture
Author(s) -
Norman Gray,
Ruaridh O’Donnell,
Ross MacSporran,
Stephen Oxburgh,
Johannes Courtial
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of the optical society of america. a, optics, image science, and vision./journal of the optical society of america. a, online
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.803
H-Index - 158
eISSN - 1520-8532
pISSN - 1084-7529
DOI - 10.1364/josaa.37.000123
Subject(s) - shutter , optics , physics , distortion (music) , aperture (computer memory) , lens (geology) , photography , camera lens , detector , cardinal point , computer science , acoustics , art , amplifier , optoelectronics , cmos , visual arts
We discuss new effects related to relativistic aberration, which is the apparent distortion of objects moving at relativistic speeds relative to an idealized camera. Our analysis assumes that the camera lens is capable of stigmatic imaging of objects at rest with respect to the camera, and that each point on the shutter surface is transparent for one instant, but different points are not necessarily transparent synchronously. We pay special attention to the placement of the shutter. First, we find that a wide aperture requires the shutter to be placed in the detector plane to enable stigmatic images. Second, a Lorentz-transformation window [Proc. SPIE9193, 91931K (2014)PSISDG0277-786X10.1117/12.2061415] can correct for relativistic distortion. We illustrate our results, which are significant for future spaceships, with raytracing simulations.

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