Friday, March 05, 2010
UFO's around the Sun...Really?!
336 comments - Click for Blog It seems everyone out in the Internet wilderness is jumping on this new thing of orbs, or UFO’s orbiting our Sun. Some even say they can see the supposed “UFO’s” manipulating the Sun’s corona. One of the things that really surprise me are the names of some of the people that are repeating this information. Jeff Rense, the Rense flare article and Richard Hoagland, RCH’s Norway spiral article pt3 – at the bottom just to name two.There have been many images posted on websites, forums and blogs over the last several weeks that show mostly the “green” images and occasionally, there is one video from the Japanese Aerospace program (theirs is X-Ray combined with Optical) that shows two “blobs” on the top/left side. I don’t know if this video is rectified and if not then the “blobs” are actually on the bottom/right as “north” is usually down, in telescopic images. Anyway, when you play this video you’ll notice that the “blobs” don’t move. Here's the Jaxa video.
They are on every frame of the video and in the same place, not even moving slightly, yet you can watch the Sun rotate. Does this mean anything? Not necessarily because orbiting objects can hold position and don’t have to move but, this can also be something (much smaller) on the lens of the telescope itself. So nothing really except for dust! Which is it? As with the “green” SSC images and no one is asking this question but going straight to the conclusion that they “must be UFO’s”. If you ask me, all that is, is jumping to conclusions. This is something that will definitely NOT help any kind of disclosure.
Here’s another thing that really stands out from the chatter. Again, its not too scientific and really shows how eager people are to jump on the same line of thinking, without even looking at the whole picture(pun intended!). Here’s the question nobody is asking “why are these images green?” I’ve only seen a couple of comments about this on other forums and it seems that these people are assuming that there is just a green filter, much like a green gel used with stage lights, on the telescope.This isn’t true at all. While it is a green filter, its specific to a wavelength. 195 Angstrom to be specific, thats 19.5 nanometers and its measuring the ionization of Iron at a specific frequency and temp (approx 1.4m°K).
Here’s a quote from the specs for those filters and clearly they aren’t just green filters or stage gels:"The EUVI uses thin metal film filters at both the entrance aperture and near the focal place to suppress undesired UV, visible, and IR radiation. We ust two types of filters at the entrance of the telescope (Figure 4): and aluminum-on-polyimide foil on a course nickel grid for the short wavelength quadrants (17.1 and 195 nm), and a single layer aluminum foil on a fine nickel mesh for the long wavelength quadrants (28.4 and 30.4 nm). Both types of filters use a 150 nm thick layer of aluminum to reject light...”
The pdf can be downloaded here; EUVI Specs
Now just think about that for a minute. Is this a full spectrum image? No, its not, its limited to just a very narrow field, a slice, in the viewable spectrum. The higher wavelength of the Japanese video is, I believe, 384 Å [haven’t been able to verify actual wavelength] and again a specific slice of the viewable spectrum and this one happens to show an orange image. The EUVI telescope employs two filters, one is on the aperture (outside opening of the telescope) and the other is at the focal plane. Since there is no eyepiece on this telescope it sits just before the CCD camera. The primary lens is also coated. Between these three items, they are blocking out everything except for two specific lines of bandwidth in the viewable spectrum.
Now, considering just this little bit of research on the origins of these images and the instruments that are employed to capture them, several different questions arise...at least for me. Looking at these images one can clearly see objects around the Sun. One can also see pixelation as well as a grid pattern throughout (this is due to the mesh layer over the outside filter). Some of these objects look like they could be massive objects orbiting the Sun but again where’s the research to show if they are in fact close to the Sun or close to the telescope.
This one little fact could change the whole “collective opinion” of “UFO’s” orbiting the Sun. If these objects are close to the telescope then they are pretty small and could not be “UFO’s”. If they are close to the Sun then they are in fact massive, being even larger than Jupiter in some cases. Since I haven’t been able to locate (as of this posting) anything to help triangulate and thus find “distance” between any objects, the Sun and telescope. This will remain a major, unanswered question...I’ll leave it to you to consider the implications.
With all of this in mind and considering the specific 195Å wavelength, one has to view these objects in a different way. Here’s what I mean, if an object is in fact there, whether it be by the Sun or telescope, then we are only seeing a certain part of that object because of reflected light in the, as pointed out above, small slice of the viewable spectrum. Since we’re only seeing a “slice” then there is much more of the viewable spectrum that isn’t there and has to be assumed. Now according to the specs, there are four algorithms used for dynamic compression as well as on board software so there may be a little more data to be uncovered within these images but again we’re talking about a small slice of the viewable spectrum. Other than that, there isn’t any way (with software) to build full spectrum images using these images, the data simply isn’t there because its being blocked by the filter. Where does that leave us as far as UFO’s? Well, until further analysis can be done, or alternative full spectrum images can be captured, inconclusive at best.
Having said that, take a look at these curious images just for thought...
Now here are some images (below) that show obvious particles (or dust) hitting the telescope, these are probably larger particles being thrown out by the Sun in a cosmic spray...as usual and we see them within CME’s.
The next two are a couple of real curious images and I’ve found several so far. These seem to have some kind of liquid sprayed on the lens that has been wiped clean, much like the cameras on Indie type racecars. *Notice the way the highlight/shadows are opposite from what one would find on a solid object, ie refraction inside a bubble of liquid! According to the telescope specs, there isn’t such a device on this telescope. These images are almost more intriguing to me than the whole “UFO” conversation. I’m including an article showing that water can freeze with heat and if this is possible then maybe water can stay liquid in sub freezing temps depending on the charge that is on the film of the water droplet. This is something to think about for sure, especially if you’re a follower of the electric universe. Here is that article if your interested, Water Freezes with heat and this website that could further support the “electric model”, The surface of the Sun – Iron?
Click the images for a larger view...
Now here’s the last thing that I find very curious and cannot find any satisfactory explanation on the SSC or STEREO websites. For a period of three days previous the current date, all the EUVI images are of a different type and labeled as such. You have to look for it otherwise they’ll be missed as I’ve seen every other post out there hasn’t mentioned and/or noticed this difference. Here are a couple of examples, The first are immediately uploaded and then after three days replaced by the second example. Notice the file names (I’ll explain):
http://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/browse/2010/02/16/ahead/euvi/195/2048/20100216_165530_n7euA_195.jpg
http://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/browse/2010/02/16/ahead/euvi/195/2048/20100216_165530_n4euA_195.jpg
The file name is 20100216_165530_n7euA_195.jpg
20100216 – is the year/month/day.
165530 – is the time of day, in this example 4:55pm, presumably?
n7euA – n7(haven’t found what this designates and IS what is missed), eu – extreme ultraviolet, A – ahead.
195 – is the viewing bandwidth.
Now look at the two full links above. I’ve pulled the images from that date and the versions I have are the “n7euA – n7euB” (A-B for ahead and behind) and what is currently in that archive are “n4euA or B” versions, depending on if you are in the “ahead” or “behind” directories. You will have three days to look at and/or pull the “n7” type images, after that the “n4” type replaces them. There are two noticeable differences with these two sets of images. The n4 types have different timestamps and are higher quality than the n7 version, but why? Here is a “caption” listed with the “n7” version images.
“Image of the Sun, taken by the SECCHI Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUVI) on the STEREO Ahead observatory on February 16, 2010 at 13:35:30 UT. The 195 Angstrom bandpass is sensitive to the Fe XII ionization state of iron, at a characteristic temperature of about 1.4 million degrees Kelvin. This image was produced from the STEREO space weather beacon telemetry. Because of the high amount of compression used for the space weather beacon, the image quality is far lower than in the final science product.”
Keep in mind that ALL of the images that show the supposed “UFO’s” are of the n7 type, in fact the rense article above had links to the n7 versions and by the time I looked at that article, the image links were dead. Now they have new ones up or maybe a completely new article? According to NASA’s official reply sited in RCH’s article, these images are, “telemetered down nearly continuously”, so why the completely different sets of images? Again, I haven’t found a single explanation as to the different sets and if I’m to assume these are part of the data captured using two different filters as well as two primary lenses then why remove them from the public data store? This may be a non issue but is there something there we need to pay attention to?!
So there you have it and I think many will agree that while there are many anomalies surrounding these images (no pun intended!). Going straight to UFO’s is putting the “cart before the horse” at this stage because I cannot see any way to prove or disprove (by way of these images) evidence of UFO’s. There needs to be more data to correlate with these images to determine distance and size of some of the objects for starters. Does that mean NASA, or specifically the STEREO Science Center team, is being honest with some of this? Yes, I believe some of the artifacts are indeed dust or particles. What I can’t do is extend that explanation across the board to every object and for the rest of these anomalies...NASA doesn’t have an answer, yet!
**UPDATE**
Here is a page on the Stereo web site that has further explanations to "some" of the questions I've brought up above. It was not available when I researched this post and now that it is, I feel I need to add it to this article in an effort to keep to an Honest approach. Here's the page... Odd sphere like objects. -z
posted by zebowho at 3/05/2010 10:07:00 AM
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