Lovely pictures taken in 2005 of Aurora Borialis over Scandinavia with moon in background and mauve coloured spot with sattelites..
What is significant as blow ups Figures 2 and 3 show, is that the digital pixelation around the spot is the same as around the moon, suggesting
that the spot is something in the view of the camera rather than distortion within the camera.
Also all you debunkers who do such a good job please dont shoot the messenger (save it for you missus)
link to source
peace all
daz__
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reply to post by daz__
Not an expert in photography by any means...but..
It really looks like a lens flare to me though. The faint outer ring surrounding the "object" leads me to that conclusion.
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I also think it looks exactly like a camera malfunction
Lens flare.
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It is a lens flare, just look at the image, it is clear from the first look itself, and look at the light halo like ring surrounding the large red
colour center, this is the characteristic of lens flares and if you look closely, you can observe that it is part transparent and you can look through
it. 
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As an ignorant non expert I would have suspected it is not just a lens flare, but a "Photoshopped" lens flare.
Still, I want someone to keep looking because this is one 'legend" I don't yearn to experience.
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reply to post by Maxmars
Lol, the king of fakes, not only a lens flare, but a photoshopped lens flare!
Well, I'm not trying to shoot the messenger, but...
Op, I seriously hope you just posted that thing for laughs, I mean come on, a photoshoped lens flare? How much more rediculous can something get?
That made my day,
-Lahara
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Bogus.
The orignal photo is
here Spaceweather
It was taken in Canada (not Scandinavia)
It was posted January 6, 2009, not 2008.
It is obvious in the original that it is lens flare.
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reply to post by Phage
Agreed, lens flare off the moon. Get those all the time with my regular camera lens when trying to do widefield with the moon. They're a real pain
because I know if I post those online people somewhere will think it's an "anomaly," so I do whatever I can to minimize it. Thanks for posting the
original, the others are so compressed it's harder to tell what it really is.
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Thank you all for your analysis and expertise..
Personally i wouldn't know how to spot a camera lense flare from a photoshoped to the real thing.. I will study your analysis some more to see if I
can learn something..
peace
daz__
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