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reply posted on 9-9-2008 @ 08:09 AM by ngchunter

reply to post by sty

You can't determine the size of a bright, nearly-point light source just by how many pixels it occupies in a digital image; as pixel wells fill up they spill over into neighboring wells so all it can tell you is how bright the object is.

reply posted on 6-11-2008 @ 05:44 AM by timelike

I must concur, I'm a theoretical physicist here in UK and have been an amateur astronomer for the past 15 years. I'm pretty sure this is Mercury and Saturn. Don't forget we're approaching a ring plane crossing, so saturn's rings have been narrowing up and will appear to be almost edge on now and through next year.

I'm afraid you must seek your spaceships elsewhere!

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reply posted on 30-9-2009 @ 11:59 AM by Gliese581

Stereo A (ahead) continues recording a very odd object as big as the Sun if not bigger (visually).
stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov...
the Sun is outside the right frame. The object in the left increased after September 14 until now

reply posted on 30-9-2009 @ 01:41 PM by ngchunter

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Two things. First, the heliospheric imager labels are reversed; the ahead view is from the behind satellite and vice versa because the imagers are mounted on the sides of each spacecraft. The second thing is that I see no "objects" just light from the heliosphere:
www.springerlink.com...
These imagers look at earth-directed CMEs from our sides as they approach 1 AU and beyond, so naturally the light from an expanded CME is going to be much larger than the sun dimensionally, but infinitely less dense as well.

reply posted on 1-10-2009 @ 03:41 AM by Phage

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The "object" is the milky way.
Here it was last year.
stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov...

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reply posted on 1-10-2009 @ 09:39 AM by ngchunter

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Thanks phage. After viewing a time lapse video showing it coming into view I agree 100%. I thought we might be looking at the back end of a large CME, but clearly it's just the milky way. It's much easier to tell what things are in these imagers when you look at them in full motion.

reply posted on 20-2-2010 @ 11:17 AM by sema sema

just one thing you guys should know about the stereo, taken from nasa website!

January 21, 2007, ejecting it from earth orbit in the opposite direction from spacecraft A. Spacecraft B entered a heliocentric orbit outside the Earth's orbit. Spacecraft A will take 347 days to complete one revolution of the sun and Spacecraft B will take 387 days. The A spacecraft/sun/earth angle will increase at 21.650 deg/year. The B spacecraft/sun/earth angle will change -21.999 degrees per year.

just to note there a little bit closer to the sun than they should be mathematically to be venus, possibly could be mercury, but the size and proportions just does not match the orbital parameters

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