forum timestamps indicate that you managed to solve this in 14 minutes. maybe we need to consider to split questions in two "weight classes", "for Wayne" and "for regular people" p.s. funny how asteroid is actually not a streak, but the dot in the very center.
Re: What is it? Space mystery object #19
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 9:01 am
by makc
given that you liked the idea of animated gifs in questions, I would place my bet on http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap060215.html. I didnt go as far as to check frames, though, so I am waiting for your confirmation
Re: What is it? Space mystery object #19
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 10:31 am
by Wayne
Nope, sorry
Re: What is it? Space mystery object #19
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 1:22 pm
by makc
This "round" edge is probably deceptive, it may be not a star/planet/moon at all. Although I checked fisheye apods, none seem to match.
Here goes number 20, a crop from mysterious sky object:
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I expect this to be reasonably hard, so I made another spare crop, which I expect to post as additional hint later, but - who knows - maybe Wayne will recognize it right away.
Re: What is it? Space mystery object #19
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 4:46 pm
by wonderboy
That was a bugger! you threw me off with the change in perspective. I looked at that bloody apod aswell well done sir.
Re: What is it? Space mystery object #20
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 4:47 pm
by wonderboy
did you change the colour because your all sneaky so you are haha!?
Re: What is it? Space mystery object #20
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 5:37 pm
by makc
funny you were 2nd person to think so no, I did not. this crop was taken from greyscale image.
Re: What is it? Space mystery object #19
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 5:39 pm
by makc
Wayne stated that he's "taking the image from the high-res version" (which is rotated), so there was no "change in perspective" by Wayne.
Re: What is it? Space mystery object #20
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 11:56 pm
by Wayne
This is a good one. I'm yet to get it and I've been looking for a while now.
Re: What is it? Space mystery object #20
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 1:07 am
by makc
ok, seeing that even our search-fu master Wayne can't find it, I am posting another crop I saved from the image.
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Re: What is it? Space mystery object #20
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 1:40 am
by rstevenson
Oh well, that makes it obvious. That's...
Tom Swift Sr.'s Electric Searchlight shining on the sun.
Rob
Re: What is it? Space mystery object #20
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 6:30 am
by Wayne
The second crop is almost unmistakably a lens flare. Which sort of helps narrow it down. Back to the search box!