Solved: What is it? Space mystery object

[neufer]

What is it? Space mystery object #29

[makc]

That's T-1000 looking down on his feet melting

[owlice]

Got it!

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/ ... cc_big.jpg

That was a tough one*! Kudos!


* for this mortal, anyway; possibly not for Chris

[neufer]

Got it!

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/ ... cc_big.jpg

That was a tough one*! Kudos!

It shouldn't have been too tough considering who posted it.

[owlice]

My mistake was in treating this as one posted by a normal person.

[owlice]

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[Amir]

looks like Saturn, but no Saturn look like that!!!
i spent more time searching it than i spent on any other one....pooh!

[owlice]

Bear!

Amir, would you like another crop? Or clues?

I thought this one might be a bit hard.

[Chris Peterson]

Amir, would you like another crop? Or clues?

Hold off. There's nothing wrong with a puzzle that needs a few days. Some of us (read: "me") have other things we need to do. A hard puzzle means I might have a chance to work on it before somebody snaps it up!

[owlice]

I'll hold off.

And when I wrote I thought it might be a bit hard, I left unwritten except for Chris, but I thought it, I thought it!!

[The Code]

Amir, would you like another crop? Or clues?

Hold off. There's nothing wrong with a puzzle that needs a few days. Some of us (read: "me") have other things we need to do. A hard puzzle means I might have a chance to work on it before somebody snaps it up!

Good call Chris. I managed a quick look, but no luck. Busy lives. I think a week, before tips and clues. What do you guys think?

[Wayne]

I think we need a standard size for crops, some are just too small, like this one, to make for a reasonable challenge.

Making a stupidly small crop just makes it easy on the challenge poser.

[Chris Peterson]

I think we need a standard size for crops, some are just too small, like this one, to make for a reasonable challenge.

Making a stupidly small crop just makes it easy on the challenge poser.

It could, but it doesn't need to. It isn't just those trying to answer that are challenged; the poster is being judged as well. I think that every APOD section selected has some reasonable crop size- it might be very small in some cases. That is part of the challenge to the poster- make the puzzle as obscure as possible, while still providing enough information that somebody can figure out what it is without resorting to brute force searching.

(This one is tricky; I have a couple of ideas what I might be seeing, but none of my searches have turned anything up yet.)

[Wayne]

In this case, I don't believe the OP indeed has provided enough for anyone to solve it by any means other than brute force or dumb luck.

Though I personally am yet to try. I'll give this a go tomorrow when RL is less of a burden.

[owlice]

There are clues in the crop. I am happy to point out one or two of them if folks want.

(What's wrong with brute force or dumb luck, anyway? That's how I've solved all of the ones I've solved!! )

[Amir]

better wait for three days, till the week that folks demanded is over: then it's time for clues & maybe another crop!

[Chris Peterson]

There are clues in the crop. I am happy to point out one or two of them if folks want.

What I think I see is a yellow disk or sphere quadrant, either clipped along the bottom edge by something in the foreground, or shadowed by something. This object is bisected (as seen by the single column of pixels along the right edge that you left in the crop) by a foreground object like a pole.

My sense is that this is not an astronomical object, or if it is, it's a rendering. But I'm not real confident about that feeling.

[owlice]

Am I supposed to confirm or deny? Or wait and do so later?

[Chris Peterson]

Am I supposed to confirm or deny? Or wait and do so later?

Well, I guess I'm ready to hear "warm" or "cold", anyway <g>.

[owlice]

But I'm not real confident about that feeling.

It's good that you are not real confident about that feeling.

This object is bisected (as seen by the single column of pixels along the right edge that you left in the crop) by a foreground object

Definitely warm.

As was Amir.

[owlice]

As was Amir.

Let me amend that...

Amir was sitting on the sun, he was so hot!

[owlice]

I hope this helps!

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[owlice]

What happens when one of these isn't solved? Do I keep posting crops until someone has it, or should I just post the URL of the original APOD so we can move on?

[makc]

I hope this helps!

This pretty much ends it

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap050616.html

[Chris Peterson]

This pretty much ends it

THANK YOU! (That's almost exactly what I thought it was, and then I was misdirected by a bad clue!)