what is the thing after the glitches it looks like something in the backgroud, what is it..

http://www.spacew.com/c3/c3animbig.gif

What exactly are we looking at? A grainy animation? I can see nothing that particularly stands out.

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it looks like a key hole to me

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Nah, it's obviously that sneaky ole Planet X. OK, we were all wrong - time to dig some trenches and eat the pets...

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thats more like it

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This is a technical question, not a "oh, no, the big, bad PX' question. What causes that clear spot, where stars(?) are visible, but that grainy stuff isn't?

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Just taking a guess here, this is a black and white image with a lot of contrast so there's even more chance of CCD overload. CCD overload is the cause of most unexplained areas on this type of image.

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The link is a running movie of the SOHO C3 difference images; i.e. the two most recent SOHO C3 images are subtracted to show any changes between the two images. This is useful for studying coronal mass ejections, comets, and other changing events. However, after looking at the above movie and the non-differenced SOHO images, it is pretty clear that each of the last three images is screwed up, and taking the differences of screwed-up images results in meaningless images.

The thing at 5-6 o'clock is a normal coronal streamer; this can be seen by looking at the non-screwy, non-differenced images.

(And if PX were to be coming nearly directly toward us from behind the sun, it would show little motion in between images, other than getting larger, and so would be subtracted out during the differencing).

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if you want to know about the short comings about CCD pictures goto the meade web site a goto their CCD page. It goes into depth about what causes bad images and random light fluctuations.

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Skywatcher... Havent you posted a link before of that picture? About two weeks ago? Im sure I have seen it on here before.

And I still cannot see what you are worrying about in the picture.

*goes off to find the other topic.....*

I remember it too, but I assumed it was a different pic of the same kind.

Possibly could have been... There have been so many of these claiming to have something on them, that my brain has probably meshed them all into one!

Skywatcher:
Look at what you're doing to poor kitten!

there there, kitten... pay no attention to the nasty troll. *comforts*

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