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Anonymous Coward User ID: 55534957 United States 10/23/2014 11:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Cloudy at your location? Don't have safe solar viewing gear? Come watch today's partial solar eclipse live right here! *Spotted a UFO and the UFO was at (about) 27 minutes XX seconds... Maybe someone can go look at the solarham images for the UTC 23:27:xx time frame to confirm the location of those two moving dots? |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 61825854 United States 10/23/2014 11:30 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Cloudy at your location? Don't have safe solar viewing gear? Come watch today's partial solar eclipse live right here! *Spotted a UFO Yep, thrust coming out of the end opposite their direction of travel. Problem is that they don't look very aerodynamic at all. So either there's some sort of visual distortion and they really are aerodynamic, or they're in LEO using thrusters and don't have to be aerodynamic. Astro's suspect, too. They appear right at the sunspot in the viewfinder exactly after he says to go back to watching the sunspot and see if a bright flare happens. Too close a coincidence for a lame joke, I think. So was this a flyby Astro knew was coming? But what would be the point of that? To fake a UFO sighting by Astro? Again, why? Well perhaps because the last person to ever admit a UFO would be Astro, so if he then accepts it as one (as he's done) it would be a form of normalizing or accepting them past a certain threshold of denial that's remained intact and defended by people like (and including) Astro. Or maybe it's a real UFO, and they choose Astro to reveal themselves precisely because he's such a jerk about them. Maybe this is just the Star League saying "neaner neaner." |
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Dr. Astro (OP) Senior Forum Moderator User ID: 55240075 United States 10/23/2014 11:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Cloudy at your location? Don't have safe solar viewing gear? Come watch today's partial solar eclipse live right here! *Spotted a UFO Not a joke, I swear, God as my witness, not a joke, not a hoax. Shit just happened. I had no idea this would happen. It probably is just something lame like balloons, but I did not set this up. Even if I had wanted to I didn't have the time to organize and fake this. I did the entire webcast live. |
Dr. Astro (OP) Senior Forum Moderator User ID: 55240075 United States 10/23/2014 11:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Cloudy at your location? Don't have safe solar viewing gear? Come watch today's partial solar eclipse live right here! *Spotted a UFO If this started at 6pm... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 55534957 and the UFO was at (about) 27 minutes XX seconds... Maybe someone can go look at the solarham images for the UTC 23:27:xx time frame to confirm the location of those two moving dots? I started about 10 minutes early. Judging by the time of the posts here in the thread reacting to it, it was about 22:17. We're 4 hours behind UT on eastern time, not 5. Last Edited by Astromut on 10/23/2014 11:41 PM |
Snuffielover User ID: 63140380 Russia 10/23/2014 11:45 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Cloudy at your location? Don't have safe solar viewing gear? Come watch today's partial solar eclipse live right here! *Spotted a UFO Mister Astro. Welcome to the "Shocked by possible first sight of UFO's" club :D Sadly mine turned out to be ducks flying in formation. You should look at FR24 and see if there were any aircraft in the direction you looked. Usually a B737 would be the size of those two planes and a half combined. At least if I got your optical configuration right. Never hurts to keep an open mind though. If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and aeroplanes. |
Gomer User ID: 45165389 United States 10/23/2014 11:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Cloudy at your location? Don't have safe solar viewing gear? Come watch today's partial solar eclipse live right here! *Spotted a UFO Ah, your latitude, longitude, and elevation is needed for that solution too. Last Edited by Gomer on 10/24/2014 12:01 AM |
idiots User ID: 57546308 United States 10/23/2014 11:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Cloudy at your location? Don't have safe solar viewing gear? Come watch today's partial solar eclipse live right here! *Spotted a UFO OK let me ask a question. If your zoomed in enough to the sun spot on the sun how the fuck would you see a small as balloon the size of earth crossing the plane of the sun? You wouldn't see a balloon zoomed in that far. Stop being so hard headed. |
Dr. Astro (OP) Senior Forum Moderator User ID: 55240075 United States 10/24/2014 12:04 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Cloudy at your location? Don't have safe solar viewing gear? Come watch today's partial solar eclipse live right here! *Spotted a UFO OK let me ask a question. If your zoomed in enough to the sun spot on the sun how the fuck would you see a small as balloon the size of earth crossing the plane of the sun? You wouldn't see a balloon zoomed in that far. Stop being so hard headed. Quoting: idiots 57546308 Huh? The balloon wouldn't be the size of the earth. The distance to the island across the bay was about 3 miles. If they were balloons that lifted off the island they'd be in focus along with the sun at that kind of distance. |
Dr. Astro (OP) Senior Forum Moderator User ID: 55240075 United States 10/24/2014 12:07 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Cloudy at your location? Don't have safe solar viewing gear? Come watch today's partial solar eclipse live right here! *Spotted a UFO If those objects were within the atmosphere, they're just something flying by. If they were satellites, given the azimuth, elevation and time while traversing the sun, a rough two line element set should be doable. Then, at spacecraft midnight you should be able to see them again against a dark sky. Some of you young minds might get your heads around this as it's really doable. Quoting: Gomer Ah, your latitude, longitude, and elevation is needed for that solution too. I know how to calculate all that, but there isn't enough information here; we don't have exact coordinates as the only firm frame of reference in the sun itself which is mostly featureless with the exception of the sunspot. Maybe that's enough for a circular approximation. Maybe. Too tired at this point to figure it out. And I need exact measurements of the size and location of that sunspot for 22:17 UT. Last Edited by Astromut on 10/24/2014 12:07 AM |
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Snuffielover User ID: 63140380 Russia 10/24/2014 02:33 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Cloudy at your location? Don't have safe solar viewing gear? Come watch today's partial solar eclipse live right here! *Spotted a UFO If those objects were within the atmosphere, they're just something flying by. If they were satellites, given the azimuth, elevation and time while traversing the sun, a rough two line element set should be doable. Then, at spacecraft midnight you should be able to see them again against a dark sky. Some of you young minds might get your heads around this as it's really doable. Quoting: Gomer Ah, your latitude, longitude, and elevation is needed for that solution too. I know how to calculate all that, but there isn't enough information here; we don't have exact coordinates as the only firm frame of reference in the sun itself which is mostly featureless with the exception of the sunspot. Maybe that's enough for a circular approximation. Maybe. Too tired at this point to figure it out. And I need exact measurements of the size and location of that sunspot for 22:17 UT. Even the Sun has coordinates Mister Astro. I am not quite sure in what system, but that spot is pinpointed as [Coordinates] somewhere. This could be a nice reference to start off from, along with an imaginary, preferably dotted line going through the optical axis of your telescope :D Worth a shot! If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and aeroplanes. |
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#Geomagnetic_Storm# User ID: 60031870 United States 10/24/2014 03:58 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Cloudy at your location? Don't have safe solar viewing gear? Come watch today's partial solar eclipse live right here! *Spotted a UFO I saw the eclipse today through my Coronado PST. The great treat was, the moon, monster sunspot and a nice prominence on the Eastern Limb. Unfortunately that mount is tough to get a good polar alignment with, so I couldn't image it. But me and my friends witnessed it and that is all that counts. |
Coppercoal User ID: 60466790 United States 10/24/2014 05:21 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Cloudy at your location? Don't have safe solar viewing gear? Come watch today's partial solar eclipse live right here! *Spotted a UFO Doc, maybe it was the ISS? here's a couple ISS sun crossings from YouTube: Now I know these are faster, but I'm willing to bet they were looking at the sun in the middle of the day. You were watching the sun in the afternoon on the horizon... in fact, I remember you catching the sun set. So I bet it would seem that the ISS takes longer to traverse that area on the horizon of your viewing point. If it's not the ISS then it's probably a satellite or a big orbital telescope or something! You should try to find the times from yesterday when you were filming, and check the location of big objects like the ISS, or that Chinese station, or Hubble, etc... Peace Doc! Love your live stream and vids and pics! The big shots tried to hold it back; Fools tried to wish it away The hopeful depend on a world without end; Whatever the hopeless may say |
Coppercoal User ID: 60466790 United States 10/24/2014 05:27 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Cloudy at your location? Don't have safe solar viewing gear? Come watch today's partial solar eclipse live right here! *Spotted a UFO Here's a plane crossing the sun... The big shots tried to hold it back; Fools tried to wish it away The hopeful depend on a world without end; Whatever the hopeless may say |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 64382683 Portugal 10/24/2014 06:05 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Cloudy at your location? Don't have safe solar viewing gear? Come watch today's partial solar eclipse live right here! *Spotted a UFO Anyone caught that from another location? There was some person here claiming to saw it from Louisiana... That can be a multitude of things...Balloons,satellites,planes... Maybe the BlackKnight... One thing is for sure.It remains a UFO because no one could yet identify it. |
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