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Streak in IC 1396 in Cepheus
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 2:23 pm
by dah
There is a streak or two in the bottom of the high-resolution version of
08 September 2005 IC 1396 in Cepheus APOD photo. What caused them?
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 3:05 pm
by Malasorte
That is really strange. The 3 streaks start from the bottom left of the image and continue to right margin of the image, cutting through the nebula. They are even visible even on the low resolution image.
There is no way those are very dim artificial satellites cutting through the image, it can't be 3 of them on the same time, besides the trails would be white not red.
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Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 10:12 am
by ddemartin
They are light trails left by an airplane during the red exposure.
Cheers,
Davide De Martin
Streak in IC 1396 in Cepheus
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 6:12 pm
by nickwright
They're not light trails from aeroplanes, thats not possible. I'll check what they are.
Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 11:09 am
by nickwright
sorry for the delay, i checked my original of the image and i think its a remnant from the mosaicing process, i really should have done a better job cleaning it up in photoshop!
Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 10:48 pm
by harry
Something has caused those streaks.
There must be a better answer
Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 7:19 am
by makc
that's laser beam, and this photo clearly proves alien wars. no, really, what do you want above author explanation?
Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 10:46 am
by nickwright
sorry, its just a mosaicing artifact, its there on the original fits file
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 10:53 pm
by ddemartin
No, they are not artifact in mosaicing. They are airplane trails left during the exposure of the red channel. I tryed to remove them with just partial success.
Nickwright, you checked your original?? But we are talking of one of my color compositions!
Cheers,
Davide
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 2:14 pm
by nickwright
Hi
Sorry, your image? I'm afraid that image is mine. I don't know who you are? There is no red channel in this image, its hydrogen-alpha and it is impossible for it to be air trails, planes do not fly over the site where we took the data.
nick
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 3:40 pm
by ddemartin
We are talking of
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050908.html
Nick confused this image with one of yours.
Cheers,
Davide
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 5:49 pm
by BMAONE23
While I was looking closely at the High Resolution image, I noticed that there are actually 2 red streaks with a central green streak. The red and green would typically be Port and Starboard wing marker lights on a jet. Further, Looking closely at the red streaks, they appear to rhythmically increase and decrease in brightness as they might if they were in fact wing marker lights that were slowly flashing on and off (as they do).
So they may in fact be wing marker lights of a passing plane.