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reply posted on 18-5-2008 @ 05:06 AM by mattguy404
reply to post by Pjotr



Ahh ok, I'm with you now. Hmm, I have Stellarium too, but Mercury is very close to the Sun, so I'd expect to see it near the Sun at any given time.





^ That image was taken with the Japanese Hinode solar observatory. Hinode is in Earth orbit vs. SOHO's Lagrangian point 1 orbit which is roughly halfway between here and the Sun.

I just thought that that image above gives a good idea of scale here - it'd be a heck of an optical illusion for Mercury to be that big in that YouTube video.

*snip* - an illusion I attribute to lens flare.



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reply posted on 18-5-2008 @ 05:37 AM by v01i0
Here's the Image I had on stellarium, forgive about the time being screwed as it is not localized but showing the time seeded from my computer clock - but nevertheless it's the same date and about on the morning as the sun rises:



Originally posted by mattguy404

Mercury is very close to the Sun, so I'd expect to see it near the Sun at any given time.

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I think the important aspect here is whether Mercury is beyond or before sun, when viewed from earth. In this particular case, it is beyond the sun, and therefore in my opinion it is possible that it reflects the sun light brightly to us. Would it be before sun, it would seem like a black dot as in your pic.

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reply posted on 18-5-2008 @ 06:00 AM by sarcastic
reply to post by kdial1


I think, That's one of the planets in this solar system. They pass behind the sun quite often.

I lost the link to the SOHO schedule of planet intrusions, but there is one posted someplace.

No point in getting scared.


reply posted on 18-5-2008 @ 06:33 AM by Evasius
I'm now inclined to think it's Venus given the following comparison. The first image is from 2000 and shows 4 planets within the field of view. The object in the current SOHO image most resembles Venus.



Source Page: sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov...

If the object is indeed Venus, it's strange that it's on a direct path to intersect the Sun (the only Venus transits in our lifetimes are 2004 & 2012). Don't take my word for it though, I'm a photographer, not an astronomer...

As for the original video on YouTube, it's most likely a lens flare resulting from multiple layers of glass within the lens rather than the double paned window. At one point you see 3 dots, all of which are the Sun reflected on a deeper layer of glass within the camera and recorded askew on the CCD.


reply posted on 18-5-2008 @ 07:02 AM by v01i0
reply to post by Evasius



The object in SOHO pics indeed seems to be Venus. Stellarium gives similar results (note that the dates in YouTube vid and SOHO pics are different, in YouTube vid the object is most likely Mercury and in SOHO pic it might be Venus):



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reply posted on 18-5-2008 @ 08:22 AM by Casew
reply to post by jpvskyfreak



You're assuming that the comet is the same distance from the observer as the sun is. It looks bigger because it's closer. If there was an object 1/10 the size of the sun anywhere near us, we would feel it. There would be massive tidal upheaval among other things.
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