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Originally Posted by chrissy
if it was a speedo it would reflect on the drivers side window not on the windscreen, i tried zooming in on it and there are some words on the top it either starts with an O or a C could be a takeaway coffee cup lid or it could be a side speaker!
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Agreed. I first thought it was taken out the side window. But it's now apparent for the reasons related in other posts it was taken out the windshield and therefore unlikely to be a gage on the dashboard. It's definitely something inside the car reflecting off the inside of the windshield.
Might have been already mentioned, but the sharpness of the "object" compared to the blurred images of pinpoint/linear objects (the lights on the carousel and the illuminated windows in the buildings) indicates two things. First, te blurriness was due to car motion combined with slow camera shutter speed (to be expected with a nighttime shot with what's probably an automatic shutter speed system). Second, if the distance of the object had been equal to or beyond the distant objects (all of which are at photographic infinity), then it would have displayed the same blurriness, instead of the sharpness that indicates it was "moving" along with the car (which is what internal reflections appear to do).
BTW, car interior geometry (with angle of incidence = angle of reflection) would require one to be either close to the side window, tipped way back in one's front passenger seat, or in the back seat in order to see a reflection of the dashboard gages reflected off a side window.