Baron Beavis von Buttköpf has constructed a 1-metre Lepht-Schmidt camera at his Schloss Rattsharz Observatory, and with this, took a photo of the First-Quarter Moon during last year’s total eclipse, aided by four tons of Magnesium powder, spread approximately 10cm deep in the 50-metre wide Music Bowl in the Castle’s Courtyard, which was ignited by using an Army surplus flame-thrower.
Inspired by this success, the Baron, an expert flasher since his days in primary school, decided to use flash photography in his search for dark matter in the Milky Way, and using the combined effects of street lights in the major European cities, bush-fires in the Black Forest (now considerably blacker), and three-thousand tons of Magnesium powder in the Olympic Stadium in Munich, he has successfully managed to photograph the rear, or posterior end of the Horsehead Nebula showing a formation of bok globules being expelled from the nebula by the combined effect of many solar winds.
In a related development, these Posterior Nebula Bok Globules explain a matter that had been puzzling self-confessed Solar Expert Lorraine Mensunsky. Lorraine has been monitoring a variable star in Orion, reported to have brightened from time to time by an order of 3 magnitudes, and the influx of Hydrogen and Methane ejected from the Posterior Nebula neatly accounts for this.
The Baron has unsuccessfully attempted to photograph black holes which were thought to be in association with certain extended objects, but he has concluded that the light from the flash has not been able to return back past the event horizon of the black holes.
Flash Photography of Radio-Waves
The Baron has reasoned that if light and radio waves are different wavelengths of the same electromagnetic spectrum, it was just a matter of finding a radio-sensitive emulsion for photographic plates, and the appropriate flash material.