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And if you dig into the final result, the "1 millimeter dirt" of NASA doesn't hold water.
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by 1AnunnakiBastard
No, it isn't.
The image is corrected so the north pole of the Sun remains on top. You can verify this by the location of the bright regions of the corona before and after a rotation.
The Sun does not rotate in the image. The fiber does.
Originally posted by Mandrakerealmz
reply to post by Phage
If it was dirt in the sensor of the SOHO spacecraft that cause the artefact it would have shined how it did a few seconds later.
Isnt the SOHO far away zoomed in? Yet the "Object" gets illuminated at the time the flare goes past the object and shines light on its back side.
If it was a spec of dirt causing this shine. Then it would occur a second or two later as it took time for the light to travel. It is far enough to notice yet the light shines at the time that would suggest its bouncing of an object near the sun. Not a far away object in the sensor.
Originally posted by Sounds_of_Silence
shouldn't the "dirt" be in front and not behind the solar flare or have I picked up on something else...or....?
Originally posted by Mandrakerealmz
reply to post by 1AnunnakiBastard
Yeah pretty much in real time. For the dirt theory to hold up it should have been delayed.edit on 24-3-2012 by Mandrakerealmz because: (no reason given)
If one needs to be exact, then that statement is false. The light from the sun has to hit the object first for the sensor to be able to capture it...
What the sensor sees as an object is the light reflected on that object surface...