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Originally posted by Violater1
Wow
Battle L.A. just came to mind
Originally posted by AzazeI
I think everyone is overreacting. The pictures are blurry it could be nothing at all or a simple glitch.
It seems that a small firestorm has erupted on the internet in the last few days over a time lapse video of an asteroid that narrowly missed a collision with earth. In this particular video a tiny "mysterious object" can be seen dancing to the left and right while simultaneously moving upwards in the frame, and it appears to move out of the way of the asteroid in the animation. This is caused by a hot pixel. Normally hot pixels are stationary from image to image, but when you realign your images to put them together into a time lapse where the stars remain stationary the hot pixel can appear to "move." It's actually tracing out the original motion of the telescope. I'm showing this video as a comparison from my 2-7-09 Lulin animation's red channel where there was a hot pixel near the top of the frame. The first segment shows the full frame, the second segment shows a zoomed in crop of the dancing hot pixel.
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by RUSSO
When the telescope tracks the comet the hot pixels appear to move with the comet. When the telescope does not track the comet and image stacking is used the hot pixels appear in random areas, as seen here:
Originally posted by AzazeI
reply to post by iamhobo
I love how people star you when they have no clue who i am and long I've been here under many names. Sad how the sheeple are starting to take over the forum
Originally posted by AzazeI
reply to post by iamhobo
I love how people star you when they have no clue who i am and long I've been here under many names. Sad how the sheeple are starting to take over the forum
Originally posted by AzazeI
Back on topic this is nothing. Elenin is a small comet that will pass us and that's about it. Sorry to ruin the party or daily dose of fear. I know many of you thrive on that
Originally posted by Starwise
reply to post by Phage
Phage! I knew there had to be an explanation!
Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 was discovered by Carolyn and Gene Shoemaker and David Levy in a photograph taken on March 18, 1993 with the 0.4-meter Schmidt telescope at Mt. Palomar. The comet was in orbit around Jupiter with a period of about 2 years, and last made a close approach to Jupiter on July 7, 1992, at a distance of approximately 0.38 Jupiter radii (71,400 km) above the cloud tops. Approximately 1.5 to 2.2 hours after closest approach, the comet (which was presumably a single body at the time) was broken apart by tidal forces into at least 21 pieces.
Originally posted by JennaDarling
Originally posted by AzazeI
I think everyone is overreacting. The pictures are blurry it could be nothing at all or a simple glitch.
Why would they "catalogue" a glitch with a catalogue number?
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by Darkblade71
Shoemaker-Levy 9 broke up because it passed deep into the gravity well of Jupiter and tidal forces caused it to disintegrate. The distinctive "string of pearls" was clearly visible.
Elenin has not and will not pass close enough to anything to have caused this to happen.
And at what distance will Elenin pass..
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by Darkblade71
Shoemaker-Levy 9 broke up because it passed deep into the gravity well of Jupiter and tidal forces caused it to disintegrate. The distinctive "string of pearls" was clearly visible.
Elenin has not and will not pass close enough to anything to have caused this to happen.