reply to post by jeichelberg
EDIT: Additional question: I noticed you state "our skies have not been clear for a very long time...", yet they are clear enough to take pictures
of stars and other objects in the skies, including the photo of the Moon in the other frequently occupied thread...How are the PTB failing here?
Atmosphere is ambient and as many wannabe weather mods have stated is poorly understood.
And that is the reason why I asked you very specific questions about the object...What do you believe is going on regarding the lighting of the
object?
I think this has been more than adequately covered: various explanations for countless sightings of something have been given as lens flare, artifact
of processing, dust-lint-bugs, Venus-Mars-Jupiter-Saturn-Uranus-Mercury, various comets, stars, trojans, asteroids, sun dogs, halos, sun spots,
hallucinations...etc.
As far as lighting, I think it's noteworthy that each telescope in this array for the Antarctic Plateau has a different filter with one control.
It's obvious that they are trying to see something out of the ordinary visible spectrum.