ccaissie wrote:
I see that now in zooming. I'm not a digital user, but am around it involved in astronomy. And winter mountianeering. Digital astrophotography uses some very exotic techniques of unsharp masking and such, and it's very common to see artifacts and effects entering the process. ('Photoshop Astronomy", R. Scott Ireland).
Also, I'm pretty sure that's not snow blowing, or other atmospheric items.
Still a mystery and a curiosity, it seems.