4/17/20 Report - Big News! Some Florida Beaches Opening This Evening. Using Metal Detecing Conductivity Numbers. Kirlian Photography.

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.

Beach.

This is a beach.  I thought I'd post a picture of a beach in case you forgot what one looks like.  Those were the good old days.  You never know what you've got til its gone (Joni Mitchelle song).  It isn't a new beach photo, just reminiscing.

Just after I posted this photo, I saw the mayor of Jacksonville on TV saying that he was opening beaches at 5 PM Friday.  He said he wanted people to have more space to distance and the ability to get some exercise.  He asked people to continue observing social distancing and safe behavior.

6:15 PM Update: Happy beachgoers at Jacksonville beach are delighted to have their toes in the sand once again.

In St. Lucie and Martin County today, the beach accesses were still gated or barricaded.  The boat ramps are open, and there are good numbers of people out along the river.

There is word that DeSantis will start opening Florida beaches this evening.  I don't know if that is a sure thing or how many will open.

It seems there are people starting to petition for the beaches being opened.

I did a little mucking around in a real trashy area with the Equinox, and was using the conductivity numbers to pick through a small range of items.  They were fairly high conductive items of fairly small size.  A lot of them were copper electrical components, like the ones shown below.  I was able to avoid tons of aluminum and iron.

I did pick up a copper penny that was corroded down to about half its original weight.

The conductivity numbers can be used to pickup a fairly narrow range of items, which can be helpful.

I'm also trying to get my homemade Kirlian photography kit setup so I can get some good pictures of the coronas (not the bad type).

I did a post about that before.  Here is the setup installed in an old brief case.

Polaroid film can be used to capture the aura of objects, but I'm going to attempt to do it digitally now.

See https://treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com/search?q=Kirlian for more about that.

I think I might be able to correlate the aura or discharge pattern with what detectorists refer to the item's halo effect.

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A lot of people read and contribute to this blog, including some of the very top salvage people to people who are thinking about swinging their detector for the first time.  I've finds showed finds from both ends of the continuum.  You might be surprised by who they are and their accomplishments.

Different types of people visit this blog and for different reasons.  Some only want to see what has been found and want to find more themselves.  But there are some, that come for other reasons.

One person, who was a salvage diver on one of the biggest and most important 1715 Fleet finds of all time told me he doesn't visit the blog to learn about metal detecting.  He said he reads the blog to learn more about living.

Another person, an author, told me how she is often inspired spiritually by the blog.

Unlike the fine authors who acknowledge this blog when they use it as a source, there is one that comes here to get ideas for his books but never acknowledges the source.

So its a very mixed bag, probably much more than you could imagine, and although I never hear from some who read this blog, I do hear from a lot of them.

Just this morning I heard from a practicing MD who has contributed to some of my featured posts in the past, and he said he found his first Barber Half this year, and found two half dollars in the same day for the first time.  Congratulations on the Barber half and double half day!

If you are easily triggered you might want to cover your eyes for the rest of this sentence, but he also lamented how people are voluntarily giving up their freedoms.  You probably won't hear me talk about that topic much in the future since it seems that some of the authorities had a change of heart and are ready to let things begin to open up before long.

The readers of this blog are varied, as am I.  Professionally I started out as a college psychology instructor.  I moved on to psychophysiological research, which included among other things a research grant from the Heart Fund to develop a constant-cuff blood pressure feedback system like ones you see in the pharmacies these days.  As computers evolved, I moved from batch processing and using keypunch and punch cards for statistical analysis, into interactive computing ( using a teletype which had a delay of a second or more between each keypress and response ) and developed what I believe to be the first programmerless CAI authoring system, Next I went into consulting and training development for about ten years, which included consulting for a variety of large organizations, including airline companies, the Navy, Federal Express, Martin Marietta and a variety of other schools, non-profits and other companies.  Eventually I returned to academia and taught computer science and education before moving to the Treasure Coast.

Here is the point of that - I always, whether in computer science, education or consulting, or metal detecting, employed the same type of analysis  and problem-solving skills. I brought the very same principles to my metal detecting that I used in my career, which is one thing that makes my approach to metal detecting a little different.  I hope that helps you understand a little better where I am coming from.

It might seem to you that I am off-topic when I am illustrating the use of the same analytical and problem solving skills in other areas.  But one of the things that is important to me is illustrating thee same types of skills as applied to a variety of situations and problems.

I am considering making some changes, but they might not be big changes.   I'm not sure yet exactly what I am going to do differently yet.

It sounds like it might not be forever before we can go to the beach again.

Trivia question:  You might have heard that Battelle is developing technology to sterilize facemasks to they can be reused.  What put them on the map?  See answer below.

Good time to research and study.
TreasureGuide@comcast.net



Battelle developed the Xerox copy machine.

I did a little work with them (very little) back in the seventies, I think it was.

7/19/13 Report - Ahah!!! How You Might Actually See and Photograph the Halo Effect! Kirlian Photography and Metal Detecting

Kirlian Photograph of US Half Dollar.
Source from link below.

One note before I get started on my main topics today: they discovered some timber on the north end of the Margarita site and are thinking that some of the ship might have gone farther north, so they'll be investigating up that way some more.


I was reading a great article on the Halo Effect as it relates to metal detecting when I experienced one of those moments when you put things together and come up with a totally new realization.  That is supposed to be when you yell Eureka or Ahah!   Anyhow,  I was reading about the halo effect when I realized that I may have actually taken photographs of the Halo Effect many years ago -  long before I became involved in metal detecting.

Below you will see pictures of the Kirlian photography system that I assembled back in the seventies.

You might want to first read this article on the Halo Effect.   It is a very good article on the Halo Effect and how it relates to metal detecting.

http://www.njminerals.org/metaldetecting-haloeffect.html

(Thanks to Robert K. for submitting this link.)


You ask how you can photograph the Halo Effect.  The answer is Kirlian photography. 

In 1939 Semyon Kirlian discovered that you could photograph the aura of an object by placing the object on a photographic plate in a high-voltage electric field. The photographic image looks like a colored halo or coronal discharge.

Images created by Kirlian photography were mistakenly thought by some to be a physical manifestation of the spiritual aura or "life force."  What is actually recorded is the result of natural phenomena including pressure, electrical grounding, humidity and temperature. Changes in moisture barometric pressure, and voltage will produce different 'auras'.  So what is actually seen on the photographic plate is gas ionization around the object - living or not.  


Here is a link where you can read more about Kirlian photography and auras.

http://www.skepdic.com/kirlian.html

And here is a link where you can find the Kirlian photo of the coin shown above plus a variety of other Kirlian photographs of coins and other objects.

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=kirlian+photograph+of+a+coin&id=488C10464835EA7AE5DD735739335BE5CC19D7E3&FORM=IQFRBA#a

And here is the Kirlian photography system that I once assembled in an old brief case.

Kirlian Photography System Assembled in Brief Case

Inside the case (top photo) you see a variable voltage trasnformer and a high frequency induction coil.

On top of the case is a metal electrode plate and a glass dielectric plate.  The glass plate is placed over the electrode plate, then Polaroid film places on top of the glass plate and the object to be photographed placed on top of the Polaroid film.  Then, while in a completely dark room, push the button (white seen through the hole in the case) and the aura is created and picked up by the film.

Unfortunately I can't find any of the old photos I took with this equipment.  I should be able to make some new ones once I warm up this old system.

I went a little mad scientist on you today, but I got excited when I realized that I might actually be able to take a photograph of the Halo Effect, or at least something very similar.   Not exactly as it would be in the ground, of course.  Still, it is a halo effect and it seems to me that many of the same principles apply. I'll have to think more about how the signal from the detector actually excites the object and the field around it.

That suggests a lot of experiments.  I need a few more life times to get all of that done though.


Here are a few of the main points from the Halo Effect article crudely summarized.

Test gardens aren't much good unless they are old because the Halo Effect hasn't formed on newly buried objects.  New test gardens are not much better, if any, than an air test.

Noble metals ionize in the ground too.

Some environments create the Halo quicker than others, such as moist and acid environments.

I recommend reading the entire article.


On the Treasure Coast this morning, nothing much new in the way of beach conditions.   No wind yet.  The surf is still around 1 or 2 feet.  Expect that to continue for a few days, at least.

There is no organized activity in the tropics to watch.

Low tide today will be about 11:30 AM.


Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net


A need is the first step to a solution.  There are no victories without battles.  In religious terms, a need is the first requirement and ingredient in the making of a miracle.   TG.