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I think a big part of that is because it's in black hot mode, essentially inverted. Lens flares are additive, you get the brightness of the flare plus the brighness of what is behind it. If that adds up to more than the clipping value of the...

That seems like a good fit.

I do not find it too strange. I am pretty conversant with things astronomical, I have once mistaken Venus for a plane's landing lights, though I did recognize the error eventually. (If it ever happened and I did not recognize my error, I don't...

It's not the motor its the iris blades Looks like a plane in the sky, I am not sure how geo-locating it solves anything given how long ago it is there are no ADSB etc records. Looks like at the time the plane was beginning descent presumably to...

It looks a lot like these diamond shapes apparently caused by the iris motor in the camera. Similar to this: https://www.metabunk.org/threads/calvine-photo-hoax-theories.12596/post-365766

That seems like a good fit.

New Starlink Horizon Flare web app, for (hopefully) easy predicting if a location or a flight will have sightings of Starlink Horizon Flares (SHF) https://shf.sitrec.org This is designed as an installable web-app, so once installed it will...

Yeah I know it happens, it just seems so weird that people could be so “ignorant” regarding such banal objects.

I think a big part of that is because it's in black hot mode, essentially inverted. Lens flares are additive, you get the brightness of the flare plus the brighness of what is behind it. If that adds up to more than the clipping value of the...

I circled it in red on the last two, the first one is the disk just before without the thin cloud. See the attached screenshots (nothing in the first one, its for the comparison)

that isn't fully accurate: "A Response to Watters et al. (2026)", Villarroel et al. say the dataset "might include plate defects, scanning artefacts, and variable stars" and that "up to two thirds may be false positives". So even if the reported...

One thing that might help clarify the discussion is to separate two different questions that are getting mixed together: whether the individual objects are confirmed to be real astrophysical sources rather than plate artefacts, and what...

I think a big part of that is because it's in black hot mode, essentially inverted. Lens flares are additive, you get the brightness of the flare plus the brighness of what is behind it. If that adds up to more than the clipping value of the...

We have enough to know plate production, and nuclear tests correlate with Tuesdays and October of 1954. Lots of plates made and nukes tested on Tuesdays and lots of plates and tests in October '54. This can be figured out just using public...

I think a big part of that is because it's in black hot mode, essentially inverted. Lens flares are additive, you get the brightness of the flare plus the brighness of what is behind it. If that adds up to more than the clipping value of the...