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Originally posted by platoslab
reply to post by Imagir
Here is a good video to place things into perspective. Without a point of reference there is no way to determine actual size and distance of the objects (195 Angstrom filter = FE XII ions are present). When the satellite is bombarded with ions that the filter is sensitive to, you will notice them all over the place.
Originally posted by The Shrike
What do you care what Phage has to say on anything?
This forum is an open forum and is not controlled by Phage where his opinion has to be considered that important.
We've already had conversations about people such as you that feels that getting some individual's reaction to a thread is of paramount importance.
All Phage, or anyone except Jim Oberg who has more knowledge about things NASA, can do is offer is an opinion which may be immaterial unless he is an expert on the thread topic.
I don't know Phage so I can't say he is unqualified.
But this "Let's see what Phage has to say about this or that" b.s. should stop! Everybody's opinion is to be considered equally.
Originally posted by watcher73
What is "them" we are supposed to be noticing all over the place?
If you are referring to the white flashes these look nothing like the still images. The flashes also appear to be in the same plane as the lens not back towards the sun.
Originally posted by platoslab
Originally posted by watcher73
What is "them" we are supposed to be noticing all over the place?
If you are referring to the white flashes these look nothing like the still images. The flashes also appear to be in the same plane as the lens not back towards the sun.
Little white flashes appear because the filter is sensitive enough to pick them up. The flashes are actually ions which vary depending on the filter type used. It is a good method for detecting elemental composition separately. In this case, a 195 Angstrom filter was used which is sensitive to iron ions.
Take a look at the image label for a clue :"Stereo Behind EUVI 195". Here is more information about the image gathered from Scientific Frontline:
"Image of the Sun, taken by the SECCHI Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUVI) on the STEREO Behind observatory . The 195 Angstrom bandpass is sensitive to the Fe XII ionization state of iron, at a characteristic temperature of about 1.4 million degrees Kelvin. This image was produced from the STEREO space weather beacon telemetry. Because of the high amount of compression used for the space weather beacon, the image quality is far lower than in the final science product." Source: www.sflorg.com...
As you can see, little white "flashes" are normal. They are more frequent around active areas of the Sun's surface and can flood the whole image when ions hit the camera.
The weird shapes and contrast surrounding the white flashes are a result from compression. Anyone familiar with digital images can tell you these are compression artifacts. It is crappy quality and very difficult to believe NASA can't do better.
[edit on 24-1-2010 by platoslab]
But if it is a planet/sattelite/comet - Why is it moving intelligently in a orbit around the suns corona? Why didn't the enourmous heat melt the objects to pieces? Why weren't the objects pulled into the sun by it's gravity? Why does it look like those objects are deriving (absorbing) the energy from the sun's rays/flares? Why has nasa censored those two pictures? Why haven't the objects left and are still there?
Originally posted by TheRandomUser
Im sorry but Im not seeing anything out of the ordinary on these pictures. What am I supposed to be looking for?