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lucrum · 08-16-2009, 08:55 PM

It kinda looks like a photo anomaly to me. It's kinda hard to tell if the circular shape is solid or not. The "tail" of the anomaly does however seem to have the right angle compared to its approach towards the sun. It's hard to tell if this could be something that passed the telescope at a very short distance or if it is at about the same distance as the sun itself.
It also strike me that it passed rather quickly, from one picture to the next taken a little less than 40 minutes apart. Would be quite the speed on that thing if it was at a distance.

I'm no picture expert though, far from it. So this is only based on how I observe it.

It does however seem that something disturbed SOHO around the time of that anomaly, considering the lines that appear in the 2 pictures prior to the picture posted above.

08-16-2009, 08:55 PM	#5
lucrum Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Norway Posts: 209	Re: What's THIS on sun telescope?!? It kinda looks like a photo anomaly to me. It's kinda hard to tell if the circular shape is solid or not. The "tail" of the anomaly does however seem to have the right angle compared to its approach towards the sun. It's hard to tell if this could be something that passed the telescope at a very short distance or if it is at about the same distance as the sun itself. It also strike me that it passed rather quickly, from one picture to the next taken a little less than 40 minutes apart. Would be quite the speed on that thing if it was at a distance. I'm no picture expert though, far from it. So this is only based on how I observe it. It does however seem that something disturbed SOHO around the time of that anomaly, considering the lines that appear in the 2 pictures prior to the picture posted above.