Free 3 month upgrade to the first person who can correctly answer all of this... *Congrats Dr. Acula!*

i even tried a reverse image search, no result... good one astro :D

light reflects off the heliostat mirror to an image-forming mirror 60" in diameter located nearly 500 feet away. The light then reflects back to a 48" diameter flat mirror which would bounce the light to underground observing rooms

The brain from planet arous

Alien DNA jizzle on a peeper scope.

The reflection of the Macula captured onto the photograph.

Or an eyeball reflection which is somehow captured on film as a picture is taken in that telescope.

Maybe the camera is pointing from behind the viewing mirror and the mirror managed to capture the inside reflection of the eyeball.

Im saying that coz of all the tiny squiggles.

i dunno, a bored guess.

is it new jerusalem calender?

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Looks like the beginning of The Twilight Zone

I'm having a blast with this!

Awesome thing you're doing Doc!!

This should be something GLP has more of in the future!

Its a way to use evidence in solving a riddle... encouraging many to investigate and possibly/hopefully educate themselves along the way and be reward for their hard work!

Is anyone here getting close or on the right track?

bending light thank you my little niña

yes

its fromthe dss series and its called a spider, now go and find the slide number!

i can guarantee Astros too smart to have it easily searchable in a reverse image look up.Hed have chacked that beforehand lol.
considering im just a learner with the star stuff, this is making me feel extremely stupid lol-like many im usually ok at researching/finding info online, but the way this has been put to us makes it way harder(but more fun to try solve).

Looks like a "made in China" lens cracking.

Bright star or planet, through a reflector telescope, that is over exposed...

Hmm, but which one

Some of you have half the answer, the other half is harder and requires more work to actually get without making a lucky guess. Going into greater details about the first half will not yield the correct answer. I was hoping that adding the bonus would encourage researching it the right way, but so far I have yet to see anyone going about it the right way. Some here understand what I'm after though...

I may give a much bigger clue that I originally intended tomorrow, but if I do that I'll require the answer to both the original question and the bonus question as well (in exchange for 3 months instead of 1) because otherwise it would just be a dead giveaway.

I'm doing my best to find it.
I'm doing it because it sure as hell beats staring at the sleet thats falling outside. lol

Is this the plate number?

8414532680_9e1151ffe1_o

I'll get this.

I'm on the right track, I know it...

The bonus question is what's going to help me answer the first one.

Just need to find the right place to look....

And when I say half the answer, I mean half the answer to the original question without even taking into account the bonus question. I know you're trying though. Just remember if you want the bonus you have to give all three parts at once.

No, that's just meaningless randomly generated gibberish. And the bonus question's answer is no good without the first two parts.

Thanks Dr. Acula! Glad you're enjoying it.

Has anyone mentioned a diffraction spike?

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what was the question again?

ill try again

its called a spider, its caused by the reflection of a nearby star into the mirror of the DSS telescope.

k...

I'll get this.

This is fun, I like a challenge.

narrow it down to one, describe the process then find the archives.

I think Dr. Acula might be my competition on this one...

EN GARDE!!!

"The spikes represent a loss of light that could have been used to image the star."

Not sure what the compass shape in the middle could be. A compass perhaps?

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That's a condom in the lens of the telescope.

And this condom has a hole....

With a big, but not-so spherical aberration

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