UPDATE: Bah. Nevermind. Ignore the original post. Those photos were taken without seeing the blue-green dot. Tonight I went out and took more photos of Jupiter… and saw the dot *again.* But this time, knowing to look for it and being willing to do some ultra-basic science, I simply moved the camera left and right… and the dot move in the opposite direction. It must be some sort of internal reflection of Jupiter inside the lenses.
Well, THAT’s boring.
I took a number of shots of Jupiter last night, the first one which seemed to show Neptune. I glanced through the others and saw the same blue-green do there next to Jupiter regardless of ISO level on the camera, so I didn’t think much more on it. But I took another look at the other pics, and realized that this can’t be Neptune. It’s moving fairly quickly across the starfield. Far too slow to be an airplane or a satellite; seemingly too fast for a comet. Maybe an asteroid? But who ever heard of one in blue-green? Additionally, I checked on the position of the blue-green thing on the full images themselves… the dot moves, indicating it’s not a hot pixel.
Any advice on this would be appreciated. The filenames give the time the pics were taken in hours-minutes-seconds, local Utah time.
3 Responses to “OK, *not* Neptune. But what the hell *is* it?”
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Have you tried hitting some of the astronomy boards? If they don’t know they probably know who might.
It’s a penguin vessel. They’re watching us. Always. And they are already everywhere.
No, I’m dead serious.
Did the thing get identified?