NASA SOHO. Strange Circle Formation For 24 Hours! Febr, 2011. What is this?

Originally posted by Rhain
I agree that he is mistaking star groupings.

But was interests me is a object that does a right turn at around 6:42. Or close to it.

Interesting to say the least.

Rhain

Originally posted by Chadwickus
It's just a group of stars.

Originally posted by Rhain
I agree that he is mistaking star groupings.

But was interests me is a object that does a right turn at around 6:42. Or close to it.

Interesting to say the least.

Rhain

Originally posted by BrokenCircles
reply to post by Soylent Green Is People

 

Thank you very much for an intelligent reply and an explanation.

It seems as if some people like to exclaim that others don't know what they are looking at, instead of attempting in any way to explain it....

Originally posted by defcon5
I truly, and with all my heart wish that NASA would make both SOHO and Stereo off line to anyone without at least a basic understanding of astronomy. That way we would not have to hear about an alien invasion EVERY TIME a planet, asteroid, comet, or other piece of debris passes between the satellite and the sun, and we would not have to hear about how the world was going to end EVERY TIME there is a Solar Flare, CME, it gets hit by solar wind, or fires a correction thruster...

Hey a guy can dream can't he?

Originally posted by Whateva69
reply to post by defcon5

 

I know I should probably bite my tongue, but here goes.

I find that comment rude, insulting and downright degrading, especially coming from a moderator.

And I also find your post ...OFF TOPIC... did you contribute in any way to the OP? If you are knowledgeable on such things, it probably would have taken you less time to describe this than it would to type out the post that you did.

Now could you please tell us what it is we are looking at thank you.

Originally posted by Soylent Green Is People
They are stars in the constellation Capricorn.

Here's a stellarium view of where the sun was 2011-02-07 (the timestamp on the video). Since SOHO is on the L1 point, it is between the earth and Sun so will have practically the same view of the background stars as earth does. The stars in question have been indicated:

[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/af24e828b42b.jpg[/atsimg]

Here's a map of Capricorn. The stars in question have been indicated:

[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/9a93d2a398e9.jpg[/atsimg]

Furthermore, if the guy who made the OP video would have looked a few days before and after the 24 period he showed in the video, he would have seen that the circle wasn't only there for 24 hours, but rather it was visible for over one week (the whole time that part of the sky was visible by SOHO's camera)....

...if you go to this page: sohodata.nascom.nasa.gov...

and click on "LASCO C3" in the image type, and put in a date range of 2011-02-02 through 2011-02-10 (then click "search"), you will see that the circle of stars is visible for that whole period of time -- first on the lower left, then moving right.

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