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High energy particles from the solar wind, and from the galaxy as a whole, whip around the SOHO spacecraft and interact with the detectors. These produce spots and streaks on the detector ranging from a single pixel, to large streaks that span a large fraction of the image. These are most evident during a solar storm, as can be seen on this Hot Shot page, but are always present at some level. I know that some people have claimed that they've seen spacecraft-looking things that seem to be moving around, but which are obviously cosmic rays when examined by an experienced observer. People see a cosmic ray at one location in one image, and then another random cosmic ray hit nearby in the next image, and claim they're both the same thing moving between frames.
The high compression factors used for the temporary beacon images can cause cosmic ray events to be significantly distorted, as shown in the sample images below. Even the full resolution data have some compression applied to them, resulting in a small amount of distortion of the brightest cosmic rays.
Originally posted by hdutton
Just looked over the pics you posted and am wondering what I saw.
I looked at : 14:55:30, 15:15:30, 15:25:30, 15:35:30, & 15:45:30 !!
There does seem to be more than the sun in these pics, but I don't have a clue what it might be.
The only planet I could think of this close to the sun would be mercury, but I don't think this object is in the right place.edit on 17-5-2011 by hdutton because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by LaTouffe
And the other anomaly : a great flash at the right of the sun.
sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov...
Thoughts ?edit on 11/04/11 by LaTouffe because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by jerryznv
What is this thing on the right?
Is this normal too???
Originally posted by jerryznv
What is this thing on the right?
Is this normal too???
Two cosmic rays distorted by the high compression factors applied to beacon data, as seen by the STEREO Behind EUVI telescope on January 18, 2010