As someone may know, i identified the stars seen in the image..Centaur Constellation (using "Stellarium" free software). This allowed me to know which is a star, and which an object, also allowed me to make some measurements. In one future post, i may go into details regarding this.
Now, back to the focus maneuveur, when NASA camera is focused to closer distance for a second or so, the subject to this analysis:
At 19 sec mark on the youtube sequence (www.youtube.com...), the operators of the camera, somehow feel that the camera is not well focused, because judging the thickness of the tether on the image they see on the monitors (actually the thickness is a image artefact of the senzor or recording device used, not a property of the tether itself), so they decide to check the focus, maybe they can aquire a better focus..this is a natural action when using a lens (amateurs may not feel this need, since ussually they have automatic focusing camera and don't care a bit about technical stuff...but in the land of manual adjusting, this checking of focus is just natural). So the operators, briefly adjust the focus. They move the focus plane closer (can't move further than infinite, since infinite is the limit) to the camera for a few moments.
The phenomenon itself, extracted:
We can see how the tether briefly grows in thickness as a result of out of focus state.
Also, all the stars goes out of focus and almost all fade and then dissapear during the focusing maneuver.
But we can see also, in the same time, that many "orbs" there, actually shrinks down and raise their brightness and many of them became extremely sharp, points of light, well focused bright points of light. Look below:
Let's identify the "objects" and their behavior before, during and after the focusing maneuver, also i named the stars:
GIF animation:
(a more slowed version is this: files.abovetopsecret.com... )
or, another version, which shows the forward - reverse motion of the focusing maneuver, to even better see the shape of the objects in relation with the focusing maneuver dinamics:
GIF animation:
(a more slowed version is this: files.abovetopsecret.com... )
And next, 3 frames:
frame1, when the lens was focused on infinite, before the focusing maneuver, stars visible:
frame15, when the lens is focused at closest distance, stars not visible:
frame27, when the lens was focused again on infinite, after the focusing maneuver, stars visible:
Facts:
1) We can see how the tether briefly grows in thickness as a result of out of focus state, during the focus maneuver.The greatest thickness is on frame 15, when the lens is maximum unfocused from infinite (closest focus)
2) ALL the stars (which now are identified) in the image are in focus before and after the focusing maneuver, when the lens is focused to infinite, because we see all of them as points. (for example frame1, frame 27, and of course outside this interval)
ALL the stars in the image lose focus, almost or fully dissapearing when focus is changed to closer. Exception the brightest star HIP67819A, which because its brightness still is seen as a faint DISC (bokeh), sign of out of focus status. The other stars, while logically are also faint discs, are not seen anymore, being too faint for this poor image to show them anymore (i expect some of them to be seen in the original better images). NAMED FACT: the stars goes out of focus during focusing maneuver.
Look for frame15, when lens is in closest focus, stars are not visible anymore (except HIP67819A)
3) MOST if not ALL of the "UFO's" gain more or less in focus during the focusing maneuver, let's see:
Well, every photographer and optics specialist recognize this "shrinking" shape of the discs, together with increasing brightness, and even transforming in sharpest points for many objects there, as a result of those objects acquiring FOCUS in those moments (for the others, amateurs...well...is a matter of experience). Simply, basic laws of optics, tell there is not any posibility that when an object is more defocused, the object to shrink and become more bright. No, shrinking and gaining brightness or becoming a bright point, is a property of a increasing in focusing.
Now, as the camera focuses closer, and many "critters", or "alien ships" became more or even best focused in exactly that moments... What that it means? It means that those objects aquiring sharpness and getting good focus, INDEED ARE CLOSER TO THE CAMERA, and when the lens is focused on the tether (=infinite), those discs are out of focus images of the same closer objects! Essentially the continous focus changing from infinite to closer and back to infinite really describe a good 3D depth perception of the space near the camera. You can get the same when changing focus when filmimg how snow flakes are falling in front of your camera on winter (i can't do it right now, but it is a simple experiment)
..next..
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). Outside, is the night sky, and the bright star Sirius
as my collaborator. 
motives ! 
You will note
that t is day 137. It is not attached to the shuttle... it doesn't need to be.... 
