Google earth, MS telescope and Sirius censorship

I thought the very same - i noticed this back in september myself, weird isn't it, along with all those strange blue lines ???????

Originally posted by ngchunter
I am not convinced that it was digitally drawn after the image was taken, unless it was to exclude stars that were resolved poorly and introducing bad numbers for hubble's guidance.

There are a few other images with similar regions on the modern telescope programs in existence. Unfortunately ( or fortunately ) I've just installed a new hard drive on my computer and would need to reopen and reconnect the old one to give some examples.

Kind regards.

reply to post by MCoG1980


Those lines are due to diffraction around the spider vane of the telescope, they're common in astrophotography taken by telescopes with a central obstruction.

Originally posted by Manawydan
There are a few other images with similar regions on the modern telescope programs in existence.

I dealt with a couple others today, once again these issues can be resolved by referring back to an authoritative sky survey source rather than google or microsoft.

I thought this was supposed to be Nibiru

Originally posted by ngchunter
I dealt with a couple others today, once again these issues can be resolved by referring back to an authoritative sky survey source rather than google or microsoft.

Makes sense since both use the exactly same images for that specific region, yes. None of the links you posted earlier seem to work for me, so I'll have to try check them again a bit later.

Anyways, it's early in the morning here, so I'm going to have to call it a night. Thank you all for your diligent replies. See you all tomorrow.

Cheers.

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Dont worry there friend, as many MGS/MOC and Odyssey images I have poured over, and was even a part of the infamous "poof dirt city in cydonia" fiasco, I know exactly what it feels like to encounter censorship. To know there is something odd there but only to have another dataset come through that clearly was altered compared to the first dataset, it is very frustrating to see the "one hand shakes while the other pick-pockets" routine.



Cheers!!!!

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Thankyou for that, glad to hear someone has a scientific explanation.
The Sirious image has me baffled though - only one i found like it and looked very odd like it was CENSORED. Do you have any ideas on this one too, it looks puposley obscured?

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If that were Nibiru, every serious amateur astronomer in the world would already know about it since it's sitting right on the ecliptic and is already bright enough to cause blooming in the CCD detector at near infrared wavelengths.

Originally posted by Manawydan
None of the links you posted earlier seem to work for me, so I'll have to try check them again a bit later.

Do try again later. I was having some trouble getting the site to work a little while ago, so I don't think it was my linking. It seems to be working again for me on a different computer now so hopefully the issue was resolved.

Originally posted by MCoG1980
The Sirious image has me baffled though - only one i found like it and looked very odd like it was CENSORED. Do you have any ideas on this one too, it looks puposley obscured?

It's masked (whether it was done in the camera or in post is another matter), but once you realize what dataset it came from, the hubble guide star catalogue version two (GSC2), masking starts to make sense. The GSC is there so that hubble can keep its orientation perfectly as it takes long exposures of deep space. That requires knowing the precise position of at least one star in every possible field of view that hubble could have. If you have bad data on a star it might mess with hubble's guidance, so it makes sense to exclude stars that are poorly resolved due to glare from a nearby source, like Sirius. If it were censorship for a different reason they would have masked it from all sky surveys, not just one version of one made specifically made for hubble guide stars.

GSC1:
archive.stsci.edu...
GSC2:
archive.stsci.edu...

You can actually resolve more stars by masking Sirius. That must mean that they performed some of the masking in the telescope or camera because you can see how it's completely overexposed in GSC1 - there's no way to recover stars that are that washed out, but it's possible that they then edited the mask to be white instead of a black area. You can see dark fringes where the physical masking was done in the high resolution GSC2 view. Like I said though, that's the only source that has that masking, so it's not censorship, you can find plenty of other high resolution images of that area. As you can tell in the other images it ought to be washed out that close to sirius anyway so there's nothing that could be seen there in an exposure of this length.

[edit on 3-12-2008 by ngchunter]

Every New Years Eve we celebrate not only the coming of a new year, but also honor the return of Sirius at midnight. It is only 8.5 lightyears away from Earth and travels directly towards us at millions of miles per hour. Ancient Egyptians believed that Sirius had a big impact on life here on Earth as supercharged particles are shot at us constantly .

its... still.. censored.....

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Originally posted by prevenge
its... still.. censored.....

They... still.. use... gsc2... What, did you expect google sky to start using a different souce for their images? Take it up with google then, but the fact remains it's not masked in authoritative sky catalogues.
archive.stsci.edu...
Don't rely on secondary sources of info just beacuse it's "easy" or popular.

Originally posted by ngchunter

Originally posted by prevenge
its... still.. censored.....

They... still.. use... gsc2... What, did you expect google sky to start using a different souce for their images? Take it up with google then, but the fact remains it's not masked in authoritative sky catalogues.
archive.stsci.edu...
Don't rely on secondary sources of info just beacuse it's "easy" or popular.

can anyone else get this link he just posted to work properly? i get liek a sliver of a picture nothign else.

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Works for me. It's an image of a section of the sky more or less completely washed out by something that I would assume is Sirius.

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Thanks for the logical explaination ngchunter, just wondering if you could help me make a bit of layman sense of the examples you posted.....

GSC1:
archive.stsci.edu... - Washed out and too much exposure for through the lense for the surrounding stars to come out defined... (i could understand this reason for using a mask)


GSC2:
archive.stsci.edu... - Mask helps the temperament of the exposure as suggested. I see there is a dark aura around the alleged mask (on the outskirts of the blob or filter). Why would that aura be as dark as it is? I can only imagine its a result of the mask

Apols if this is a silly question, cheers for reading

JC in London

There are sources saying starships are parked in stars positions. Could this be their way of covering this up? I suggest anyone with telescopes check out Sirius and any other stars flashing different colors to see if any thing looks fishy. if it does, post it.
It's funny, when i was a kid Sirius always looked blue. Now it looks more white.

Originally posted by Anonymous ATS
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Thanks for the logical explaination ngchunter, just wondering if you could help me make a bit of layman sense of the examples you posted.....

Sorry I missed this earlier

GSC2:
archive.stsci.edu... - Mask helps the temperament of the exposure as suggested. I see there is a dark aura around the alleged mask (on the outskirts of the blob or filter). Why would that aura be as dark as it is? I can only imagine its a result of the mask

Could be a diffraction artifact similar to what we sometimes see with coronagraphs. Could also be due to the fact that they were using large photographic plates rather than digital CCDs for that survey. I'm significantly less familiar with film anomalies since I've worked almost exclusively with digital when it comes to astrophotography.

Originally posted by Sargoth
There are sources saying starships are parked in stars positions.

If you're talking about John Lenard Walson, he's been thoroughly debunked here on ATS. Waveguide recreated his so-called starships to a tee using mirrors and tin foil.

Could this be their way of covering this up? I suggest anyone with telescopes check out Sirius and any other stars flashing different colors to see if any thing looks fishy. if it does, post it.

I never bother to photograph sirius, but I use it all the time as an alignment star thereby observing it visually in the telescope about once a week. I've never seen anything unusual about it, even now.