Asteroid Zoo Talk

second opinion???

  • mathyc by mathyc

    i think i have seen 2 asteroid's
    one left above in the corner
    one in the middle

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  • peterbees by peterbees

    Unfortunately Mathyc, these are imaging artifacts - dust grains or whatever in the camera system somewhere. Two ways to tell: 1) the spots or blobs dodge around in sequence, usually in a figure 4 pattern or similar. NOT in a straight line (the camera is set to shift slightly in this pattern between images, just so this kind of artifact is recognisable) and 2) where there are more than one of them, they will jump in exact synchrony just as these do. Sometimes they are a weird shape, or abnormally sharp or fuzzy. But sometimes they have round, starlight form which can be very confusing at first.

    Good hunting!

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