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Hi All,

Just wondering what you think these are?



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Replied by Graham on topic Re:Sun Anomalies? UFOs? Whats your take on this?

Links to NASA pics

stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/browse/2010/0...221530_n7euA_195.jpg


stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/browse/2010/0...231530_n7euA_195.jpg
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Replied by dmcdona on topic Re:Sun Anomalies? UFOs? Whats your take on this?

They could be image artifacts.

I guess we'll have to wait until (if) NASA explain...
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Replied by dave_lillis on topic Re:Sun Anomalies? UFOs? Whats your take on this?

Could it bee a software glitch, a buffer problem, there seems to be a dark patch right next to a bright patch, looks odd. Like light was taken from a section of an image and put over pixels right next to it. My bet goes on a software glitch in the system somewhere.
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Replied by mjc on topic Re:Sun Anomalies? UFOs? Whats your take on this?

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If you click "caption" against any image in

stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/browse/2010/0...ahead/euvi/195/2048/

You'll find "Because of the high amount of compression used for the space weather beacon,
the image quality is far lower than in the final science product."

Now, "Lower quality" can be read "higher noise" - that noise can look like anything.

Look at a jpeg of the moon or something with compression turned up and I'd expect to see some detail that isn't really there.

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Replied by Frank Ryan on topic Re:Sun Anomalies? UFOs? Whats your take on this?

Did Stereo ever capture a real transit?
Might be intresting to compare.
Image artifacts are my guess.
But how cool would it be to have
Aliens living in planet sized spheres in the Suns Corona!?
What a holliday destination!
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Replied by mjc on topic Re:Sun Anomalies? UFOs? Whats your take on this?

Good question Frank - made me do a quick search

The Moon
science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/12mar_stereoeclipse.htm

Mercury (though not across the disc)
cor1.gsfc.nasa.gov/movies/

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Replied by Graham on topic Re:Sun Anomalies? UFOs? Whats your take on this?

The Images that were linked were deleted by NASA!!

Controversial!!
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Replied by mjc on topic Re:Sun Anomalies? UFOs? Whats your take on this?

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Copy your links (which are different from what is displayed) and replace n7 with n4.

Looks like they updated the page today.

Can't say that I remember enough of the images (except artifacts) to compare but the images now look cleaner and the caption (via the link I posted) no longer makes reference to reduced quality due to data compression.

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Replied by mjs on topic Re:Sun Anomalies? UFOs? Whats your take on this?

Now it's the Borg...

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Replied by Kerry Stargazer on topic Re:Sun Anomalies? UFOs? Whats your take on this?

The links are gone:ohmy: Looks like some government pulled these photos:woohoo: :X
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Replied by Graham on topic Re:Sun Anomalies? UFOs? Whats your take on this?

Fresh video



Any ideas?

Looks BIG compared to the sun!

If its a satelitte closer to the earth, would it have 'wings' that small?

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Replied by dave_lillis on topic Re:Sun Anomalies? UFOs? Whats your take on this?

my money is on an earth satellite, Mercury would be a similar-ish size on the disk of the sun.
As for the wings (I presume you mean solar panels), some satellites have the solar panels on its walls,
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Replied by Frank Ryan on topic Re:Sun Anomalies? UFOs? Whats your take on this?

Looks like a tumbing satellite to me.
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Replied by mjc on topic Re:Sun Anomalies? UFOs? Whats your take on this?

I timed the transit and found the duration to be 29s.
The Sun's angular diameter is about 30"

I used a CD to draw a circle and I played and paused the video and plotted a course.

Length of transit 10.7cm
Equatorial diameter of disc = 12cm
This was drawn parallel to line of transit.

Angular speed was then calculated to be 0.92 arcsecs per second.
A sidereal second is 86164/86400 = 0.9973 seconds of wallclock time.

Rough enough calcs but my money is on it being a geostationary satellite.

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Replied by dmcdona on topic Re:Sun Anomalies? UFOs? Whats your take on this?

At first glance, I thought the video was showing a massive white circle moving across the sun :blush:
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Replied by mjc on topic Re:Sun Anomalies? UFOs? Whats your take on this?

Thinking about my post more.

For the object to be geostationary - and cross the disc of the Sun - the image capture would have had to be at or near one of the equinoxes (me thinks). I have no information on date of capture so can't progress that line of thought.

I think it's time for me to climb out of the rabbit hole...

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