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If the big red thing on the photos is suppsed to be Sun,
then the most striking inconsistency is the shades pattern on
the pyramids. All the rest are small details:-)



>>From the orientation of the pyramids and the fact that the small
>> pyramids, the "Queens Pyramids", look so large in the foreground, the
>> photo must have been taken from fairly close to those smaller pyramids,
>> actually, by my estimate only about 600 feet to the southwest. The Great
>> Pyramid of Khufu is the farthest back, about a mile away. The best
>> location for the photo that I can find is 29.970 N, 31.127 E. The image
>> of the Sun as seen in the photo is near azimuth 021 (near NNE). Its
>> apparent angular diameter in the photo is around 12 degrees. Obviously
>> the size is impossible. The direction is also impossible. Even on the
>> summer solstice, the Sun rises much closer to east. Although the Moon's
>> Declination can be as much as 5 degrees higher so it would rise farther
>> north, it's still not even close. Also, those "splotches" don't look much
>> like the lunar maria that I know! I think they're just clouds.
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> Try this: go to Google Maps, satellite view, at the location above, and
> zoom in as far as you can. Now drag the "little man" for street view onto
> the map. It displays a bunch of blue squares each of which represents a
> photo taken from around that location (the markers are not always
> correctly placed). Near that spot, you can find several that show the
> pyramids in nearly the correct orientations and relative apparent sizes.
> By the way, for Alex, in a couple of them you can just see the small
> pyramids on the far side of the Great Pyramid. I'm glad I didn't notice
> those first, or they would have thrown me off, too.
>
> -FER
>
> PS: There's a nice trick in Google Image search --I think I've mentioned
> it before. Open one browser window with an image that you're interested
> in. Open another browser window showing the standard Google Image search
> page. Make sure both windows are visible side-by-side on screen. Drag the
> image from the first window and drop it onto the Google Image search box
> (the box expands to swallow it, letting you know you're doing it right).
> Google will search for images that are identical and also visually
> similar. You can even do this with your own photos.
>
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