Joe Keller's "Requiem for Relativity" thread

Stoat, take a look at the red dot under green dot #6. It appears to me to be disappearing along with the green dot.

I am sooo relieved. When I first saw the post with the lines connecting the stars I thought marsrocks had found a "face" []

JR

Marsrocks, pm me and i'll send you the fits files. There's a free photoshop plugin called photo fits, there's also this www.spacetelescope.org/projects/fits_liberator/

I looked at the channels for dot 5 and there's nothing showing in the red, the green is strong and the blue is a slight smudge.

I like the idea of finding faces in the stars! A type three civilisation could move stars about, put up huge advertising hoardings.

Stoat, unfortunately, I don't use photoshop. If you can convert the fits files to gifs before you send, that would be better for me.

My gmail is marsrocks@gmail.com

jrich, LOL. No faces yet. I am curious though about those black dots that occur primarily in the orangish frames in those first two blinks I posted. What are the black dots that appeared when I brightened the image? Intervening asteroids? Dead stars?

Also, when I overkill the contrast, I am noticing some persistent patterns in the background noise that I would think should be nothing but image artifacts, yet they remain from one image to the next. Why should a random distortion repeat itself from two different cameras taken at two different times? Is there generally considered to be any useful information in the background noise?

Hi Marsrocks, are you sure you want gifs? They are very lossy. Can you open jpg files? As I have something called boxtop, that cuts file size with little or no loss.

The black blobs and what looks like a bit of hair are just bit of dust on the mirror.

I don't know about the patterns in the noise but I would think first about the algorithms used for the compression

I found something odd in the dss. When the dss is brightened to an extreme, there is a large green dot not far from the green dot you found in the Bradford. (There is no other object quite like it anywhere else in the larger dss image).

Here the images are side by side, showing the odd green dot in the dss vs the green dot in the Bradford:



Here the two images are overlaid on top of one another, so you can see the distance between the green dots in the two images above: