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SoHO Image anomaly 13 Aug 2008, What is this image?
antoniseb
post Aug 20 2008, 07:24 PM
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Over on the BAUT forum, someone pointed out this image

http://www.bautforum.com/attachments/quest...813_0918_c3.jpg

I looked through the SoHO images to be sure it wasn't a hoax, and this image did appear on the official sight with no obvious artifact like this in either the image before or after it.

So it is obviously not a giant comet with a coma twice the diameter of the Sun which only appears for a few minutes... it is probably an artifact inside or right next to SoHO. Does anyone have a good guess as to what it is?
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djellison
post May 29 2009, 07:28 AM
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One thing is for sure - it's not a 'real' object out in space. Nothing could remain stationary like that.

Each wavelength is actually a different telescope, with different optics and a different CCD. What the explanation is, I don't know.
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post May 29 2009, 08:31 AM
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QUOTE (djellison @ May 29 2009, 09:28 AM) *
Nothing could remain stationary like that.

Well... A big, black rectangular monolith could...

*ducks*


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- antoniseb   SoHO Image anomaly 13 Aug 2008   Aug 20 2008, 07:24 PM
- - djellison   BAUT seems dead at the moment - direct links below...   Aug 20 2008, 07:58 PM
- - hendric   Looks to me like a floating piece of lint in the o...   Aug 20 2008, 08:02 PM
|- - antoniseb   QUOTE (hendric @ Aug 20 2008, 03:02 PM) L...   Aug 20 2008, 09:39 PM
|- - Circum   I'm having a bit of difficulty visualizing wha...   Aug 20 2008, 11:15 PM
|- - antoniseb   QUOTE (Circum @ Aug 20 2008, 06:15 PM) I...   Aug 21 2008, 09:33 AM
- - NGC3314   The feature appears pretty accurately radial to th...   Aug 21 2008, 03:43 AM
- - vk3ukf   Hi, I also have something that I would love to ha...   May 29 2009, 12:42 AM
- - djellison   One thing is for sure - it's not a 'real...   May 29 2009, 07:28 AM
- - ugordan   QUOTE (djellison @ May 29 2009, 09:28 AM)...   May 29 2009, 08:31 AM

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