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WTH, is that object just below the black??

have ya'll seen this..check out about 6 mins in

whats this????


'NASA: Strange Object Debris Coming, Will Hit Earth December 13th and 14th' Check out this linked article for more information:

The Geminid meteor shower peaks on Dec. 13th and 14th when Earth runs through a stream of debris from a strange object that some astronomers are calling a “rock comet.”


The 2012 Geminid meteor shower peaks on the night of Dec. 13-14, The Geminids are a unique meteor shower in that their identified parent body is not a comet, but what seems to be an asteroid! Of the meteor showers with known parent bodies studied by meteor scientists, the Geminids are the only shower to have an asteroidal parent body; all others have a cometary origin. 3200 Phaethon measures 5.10 km in diameter which increases the ‘unique’ factor; considering the amount of debris we see, we would expect Phaethon to be a much larger body!
Artist’s Concept of a Rock comet

Phaethon was discovered on October 11, 1983 using the Infrared Astronomical Satellite, and named after the Greek myth of Phaethon, son of the sun god Helios, due to its close approach to our Sun.

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Last Edited by Chip on 12/05/2012 07:47 PM

Hello Everyone,

Stay Safe and Balanced

Shine Brightly

Much Love,

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Hi Isis, Thanks for responding. Yep it appears to be unknown at this time.

Much Love,

Earth is currently directly in between the Sun and Jupiter.

Good morning all.

The object doesn't even budge when a flare pops

Looks like something to do with the lens.

I hope so but the light reflection on the object leads me to believe otherwise.

And one of the flares goes in front of it.

Last Edited by Dapurps on 12/05/2012 10:26 AM

On the video, there's a small ball going from left to right at 0:11. Is that common?

The lighted one (like a star)?? I believe that is an asteroid/comet. You see them quite frequently.

In fact it's amazing just what you do see when you look close enough, and this video has been looked at by many, very closely!!!

This video of course is from October, let me see if I can find some comparative shots and see if this anomaly appears in any others.

This is the most recent one i can find. Ends in November



Last Edited by Dapurps on 12/05/2012 11:04 AM

I haven't been able to directly link SOHO shots so ... here is my attempt to do so again. But if the link doesn't work, follow the instructions below it to look for yourselves.

You'll see another lens issue at 8 o'clock. You will also see a tremendous amount of debris around the sun be projected out. This is fairly typical especially during and active period.

Take a look

[link to sohodata.nascom.nasa.gov]

Instruction:

1)Got to [link to sohodata.nascom.nasa.gov]

2)Highlight LASCO2

3) check off "movie"

4) copy paste start date 20121001 then end date 20121003

5) hit search

The movie will load, and you can view it for yourself, always good to learn for future use.

If you'd like to zoom in or out use ctrl + or -

Hope that helps answer your questions.

Hi Dapurps and TS ~

The pics I posted yesterday are more recent and are up close to the object. They were taken from helioviewer.

I have posted them below.

Much Love,

The you tube in question posted is 10 1 12 - 10 5 12

Good morning Tink

The first you posted I think most would classify as an "artifact", although I have yet to know what that means myself !!! LOL

The second 2 from the end of November are in exactly the same spot, shape and size as it was 10/1-10/5 in the video above, which confirms what I believe to be a damaged lens.

It appears to me that the ball of light hits and bounces off the larger object in question...

I noticed that too

Which would mean it has to have mass of some sort

Nice catch, it does appear to do so, but I would think if there was damage to a lens, anything that would go past would be somewhat distorted, like looking through a chip in a windshield, and would appear to bounce off, but return to a straight line trajectory as soon as it passed the "chip"

I'm no expert for sure, but have been watching the sun for a of few years now .... and everyone has to look at the evidence and come to their own conclusions ... those are mine

And the fact that it seems the last flare appears in front of the object. Pretty interesting.

NASA's explanation of "artifacts" seen in images (look a little like a, would be HUGE spaceship) of the sun

"In these HI-1 images, a daily median is used as the best near-real-time method to get CME enhancement. This results in dark spots from planets such as Mercury. When we derive the background, we do an interpolation between two daily median images. Since we make these images the day we receive them, we do not have a daily median for the next day, just the previous day. When the interpolation is done between the previous day and the current day and there is a feature like a planet, this introduces dark (negative) artifacts in the background where the planet was on the previous day, which then show up as bright areas in the enhanced image."

[link to news.discovery.com]

Now I know

You are more or less correct 66,this has been on the Cornagraphs before,it is a small fiber on the CCD Camera like this [link to stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov] <---About - Close up image of a small fiber on the surface of the CCD camera for COR2 on STEREO Ahead. Click on the image to see the location on the detector. [link to stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov]

Also,the other artifacts on the EUVI Images movies are due to Cosmic Rays,example [link to stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov] and [link to stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov] About the First image - Two cosmic rays distorted by the high compression factors applied to beacon data, as seen by the STEREO Behind EUVI telescope on January 18, 2010 [link to stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov] and the Second image - Same cosmic rays as seen in the full resolution data. Many more cosmic ray events are visible. Only the brightest two show up in the beacon image. [link to stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov] .

Anytime you catch a anomaly on the Coronagraphs first check here [link to stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov] and cross reference your image with the examples listed.

Hope you are all good

Great post. TY

Fiber actually makes more sense than a chip ... with basically the same results.

Thanks Cesium glad you could clear it up where I obviously couldn't

Have a good one

Hello

That bright object is Antares,a massive Red Giant Star in the region of Scorpius,it is ginormous with a Radius of 300 Million Kms - That is apparently the same size(a little larger,73 Million Kms larger)as the orbit traced by Mars around our own Sol!

For comparison,our own Sun is 0.7(ish)Million Kms in Radius.

Here is a Wiki about Antares [link to en.wikipedia.org] .

Rice and Peas.

You more or less had it,it is a foreground artifact and you had that figured,a chip is a good stab - You do great sleuthing 66!

Hope you are good