Massive Objects Found In Space

originally posted by: ParadoxicalMan
I was looking over photographs of Star clusters when I came across these weird looking objects:

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2MASS J06302999+0452532

NGC 1097

[HHH98] V1

What are you thoughts?


If these have been found before I plead ignorance.

a reply to: jaws1975

HooHaa!
Good One.

a reply to: hesse

Why is everything a lens flare? Can't something BE unexplainable?

a reply to: icewater


Why?

a reply to: jaws1975

I have learned that to be true in my 4 months on ATS.

Some are in for a rude awakening in the not so distant future.

a reply to: SecretKnowledge

Just my luck.

a reply to: Awen24

Assuming you have never been to deep, deep space....REALLY OBVIOUS?

a reply to: EA006

Can you prove to 100% absolute it is a lens flare, hair, dust, etc?

Go for it!

originally posted by: chelsealad
a reply to: jaws1975

I agree with you completely. I am sick and tired of every single abnormalitie been put down to a **expletive*** lensflare or something similar to that.
It's seems to be the flavour of the day.

Take into consideration that MANY on here are photographers with a great amount of experience some are even professional, we also have some astronomers on here many with VERY expensive equipment.

We also have a thread on here were they post Members Astrophotography

If it's a lens flare you will usually be given an example and proof to show why the same with the other explanations.

originally posted by: Ultralight
a reply to: hesse

Why is everything a lens flare? Can't something BE unexplainable?

Why does it need to be unexplainable is your life that dull that you need some excitement

See my post above

These objects were supposed to be ufo's



The person cropped the picture but when you see the full thing



You can see it's a lens flare that's how desperate some get to try and claim the unknown

originally posted by: jaws1975
Op one of the things you will learn here very quickly is that no matter how convincing or intriguing a picture is, it will never ever be something other than a lens flare, hair, dead pixel, bird, etc etc. There is absolutely nothing in this universe that is beyond our understanding, and having an open mind is for wackjob, tinfoil hat wearing, crazy conspiracy theorist. Ok?

/sarc

Cool pics!

A rebuttal, if i may:

Op. one of the things you will learn very quickly is that no matter what your common sense might tell you, anything that science cannot explain 100% RIGHT THIS SECOND , must, and i stress MUST be aliens, spirits, orbs, HAARP, gods work etc...

Saying we dont know yet but comming up with rational, educated guess is NOT allowed. Cant explain it? Then its aliens....

And anyone who disagrees is a paid shill working for Nasa, the govt, or big pharma.

And no, amateur astronomers and scientists do NOT exist, they are all shills.

originally posted by: Ultralight
a reply to: hesse

Why is everything a lens flare? Can't something BE unexplainable?

Simple. Because a LOT of the time, it IS a lens flare.

The first one reminded of the five tones from Close Encounters...

originally posted by: admirethedistance

originally posted by: Sharted
The last picture is quite cool. Anyone know what they could be? Hard to think it's an issue with the lens considering the number of them and how spread out they are.

Internal reflections from whatever instrument took the photo. The fact that they're in the same configuration, with the same spacing between them in multiple images of different areas is a dead giveaway.

Without knowing anything about the setup that took the pictures, I can't say for sure what exactly they're reflections of, but my guess would be mounting points for one of the mirrors...

Can't address most of those, but the "2MASS" image...

The observations for the survey were taken between 1997 and 2001, at Mt. Hopkins, Arizona for the Northern Hemisphere data and Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Chile, for the southern hemisphere.

-- en.wikipedia.org...

So...now we know about the instrument. And, if there is any "hair", dust, lint, etc. we should all feel a bit sorry for that poor intern...who was fired.

And, it appears that all of these images were taken from professional instruments, which significantly reduces the probability of anything on the lens...some may have been taken from space as well.

But, I suppose there will always be those who have to make this into something it is not.

I am very curious about this one

top-secretblogspot.blogspot.com...

The shape within the cloud is fascinating and I cannot for the life of me figure out the cause...

so, basically all this high tech stuff is worthless due to all the lint hair and artifacts? we might as well save a bundle and just give a bunch of monkeys pencils and paper and have them look at the sky and draw what they see.

100's of millions of money spent on the technology up there and we still get hairs and lens flare, I don't even know why you kid yourselves so much, especially the poor efforts to divert the OP's image towards absolute crap comparisons.


It's a good find OP, and maybe we'll get a real answer for it one day.

a reply to: abeverage

Why is a plasma ribbon fascinating?



I like how it looks like it has eyes......

a reply to: skyblueworld

100's of millions of money spent on the technology up there and we still get hairs and lens flare,

Nothing is ever perfect...especially when humans are involved.

I don't even know why you kid yourselves so much, especially the poor efforts to divert the OP's image towards absolute crap comparisons.

Why try and deny ignorance right...it's better to embrace it right?

It's a good find OP, and maybe we'll get a real answer for it one day.

And when we do it will still be denied as being a government coverup...just look at the BS we get from Mars photos.

originally posted by: Thorneblood
a reply to: abeverage

Why is a plasma ribbon fascinating?

I like how it looks like it has eyes......

Its the shape within that is fascinating!