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When something swells up vertically, then i get curious - Either bright, or big
Originally posted by Quetzalcoatl12
reply to post by Sparkey76
Sparky, do you really believe this is a satellite? If it is, its one massive Satellite. Also, it looks like there is some sort of force around it and some sort of contrail or exhaust force coming from the bottom.
Regardless, this is an excellent find. Hopefully we can find out what this thing is.
Originally posted by Pauligirl
Transits of Objects through the LASCO/C3 FOV in 2009
Mar 23 - Apr08 Mercury -2.1mag Right to Left
The wings–camera bloom
www.badastronomy.com...
If you go to SOHO and run that date–the winged thingie is on for a very short period of time.
There is a picture posted at www.cyberspaceorbit.com... which is called the "Ra" image because there is a feature that looks like the symbol for the Egyptian god Ra. This is a perfect example of a bright object blooming. If you go through the SOHO archive, you'll see this happening whenever a bright object is in the image. Venus is the brightest thing you'll see, and it blooms quite a bit. I don't know what was in the SOHO field in the Ra image, but it was bright and it bloomed (it may have been a very energetic CR). Those "wings" are not real. They are simply electrons that overflowed inside the CCD itself