Fixed That's no moon...

[Maury Markowitz]

A video posted on Reddit shows a S24 camera doing the "doorframe effect" on a point source just below the full moon.

I wanted to ID the source so I set it up in Sitrec, 15 January 2025, Alabama, 7:09 PM. The moon is not in the view.

So I thought maybe the date from the OP was wrong, and I went into Stellarium, and immediately found a full moon with mars right below it. So that's the point source, mystery solved.

But then I went back to sitrec and look around to find Mars, and it was near Pollux as it should be. But still no moon. It should be right above Mars, to the right of Pollux:

Is there a switch somewhere I'm not finding?

 

[GM4AJK]

Can you share a link to the Sitrec? Here's my Stellarium and Sitrec for that location and date/time and they seem to agree

 

[Calter]

Here's my Stellarium and Sitrec for that location and date/time and they seem to agree

Alabama would be CST, not MST

So I thought maybe the date from the OP was wrong, and I went into Stellarium, and immediately found a full moon with mars right below it. So that's the point source, mystery solved.

There was a full moon with Mars right below it on the 13th, not the 15th, maybe the date is wrong?

 

[GM4AJK]

Alabama would be CST, not MST

Agreed, my bad. But the hour difference changes where they are in the sky, not their relative positions.

There was a full moon with Mars right below it on the 13th, not the 15th, maybe the date is wrong?

This sounds more likely.

Sitrec on the 13th:

 

[Maury Markowitz]

Yeah, typo in the post, my bad.

 

[flarkey]

The moon position in Sitrec is wrong again.

Sitrec
https://www.metabunk.org/sitrec/?cu...mazonaws.com/15857/BadMoon/20251102_162708.js

This is Stellarium Web. I've just been outside and checked and the moon is visible low in the SE.

 

[Calter]

It looks fine to me when I open the link

 

[flarkey]

hmm, weird.

 

[GM4AJK]

hmm, weird.

I'm seeing the Moon in the same, correct, position as @Calter
Tried doing that "clear browser cache" thing?
Edit: I'm seeing/running Sitrec 2.7.18 25-10-31

 

[Mick West]

hmm, weird.

If you refresh the page, does it stay there?

 

[Mick West]

Has anyone been able to duplicate this bug? Or just seen it happen again in the last week?

 

[flarkey]

I've just checked the original permalink that I posted and it's not showing the bug anymore for me

 

[Mick West]

I'm going to mark it as fixed for now. I've made lots of changes to the code, and hopefully it was just a symptom of something I'd temporarily got wrong. Feel free to reopen this if it happens again.