:thyjietr:
Quoting: Phoenix SunGate Well, if it isn't our old friend CW Leonis (same coordinates as the OP gave: [
link to simbad.u-strasbg.fr] ), this time with out-of-focus internal telescope reflections, otherwise known as "lens flares" (though in this case, they take the shape of bokehs). This happens whenever you point a telescope at a bright star and over-expose it, though the exact nature of the resulting flares will depend on the optics of the telescope being used. The main 20" GLP telescope showed a similar vertical pattern of bokehs when over-exposing Sirius:
:siriusglp:
This also happens to WISE
every time it over-exposed a sufficiently bright star. Here's what Betelgeuse looked like, the exact same pattern of bokehs and flares appeared (energy beam-firing "spaceship" and all):
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link to i319.photobucket.com]
You can get the WISE images from here as well:
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link to skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov]
The image seen above is from the 12 micron band, and from what I can tell, so too is the one the OP linked to and Phoenix here posted into the thread. I highly recommend downloading the raw fits files and doing your own conversion to an 8 bit image when grabbing images of bright stars like Betelgeuse and CW Leonis though; skyview's automatic down-conversion to 8 bit JPG images does a terrible job with the histogram levels.
So in short, no, it's NOT "Nibiru," it's CW Leonis... again.