reply to post by WitnessFromAfar
Wasn't trying to offend you, it just seemed to me that it would be understood that the angles of the light from the Sun have no effect, so I thought
you included that to distract from proper analysis. If that was not the case then I apologize!
Let me try to explain again: Regardless of the fact that the light from the moon is coming from the Sun, the moon can and should still be treated as
the 'point source' for this analysis. The position of the Sun or Saturn and the angles between them have absolutely no effect on the lens flare
caused by the light being reflected from the moon, as the intensity of that reflected light does not change over the course of the analysis. Again, I
know that the sun is producing the light (I was an astrophysicist at one time) but for the analysis of the flare on the lens, the moon itself can be
treated as the 'point source'. In fact the moon does flare in the center of the frame, but we are not seeing the edge flare effect until, the
edges. It would help to know the exact nature of the lens, that might clear up why light sources on the edge of the lens flare so much more than
objects in the center. It is likely due to edge optics effects.
Also, I simply don't agree that we would see strictly a straight ray in a lens flare scenario. I have seen plenty of non-ray flares, various shapes,
diffuse, non-diffuse. Even the 'entrance' flare on the animation I am referring to starts as a ray and diffuses slightly at the end (as it
traverses from the edge towards the center of the frame,) just not as much as the exit flare. I already explained why the second flare would shift as
much as it did and you understood what I meant (due to the fact that the moon was in orbit and about to change direction right off the camera frame.)
The assumption that lens flare would only be in the form of a ray is wrong, in fact I think we are looking at clear evidence of a non-ray type caused
by edge optics.
Again I mean no offense to anyone, but at times it just seems that the physics behind this is being tossed out in favor of assumptions that would
shift the evidence towards the object being a UFO. But that is enough out of me, if people want to think this is a spacecraft, I don't really have a
problem with that, because as I said before I believe in aliens and frankly I think people who don't have their heads where the sun don't shine (pun
intended!)


But at least they've shown an ATS link in the animation!
But then I don't need to spend anything on clothes, what? Lol! 