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Here's one to keep an eye on. Bigelow Aerospace's experimental inflatable orbiter has captured an anomalous light source on it's cameras. This one could get interesting, since NASA is not in the mix with their standard dismissal stories ready to slap one in place.

They aren't making any claims so far one way or the other as to what the phenomenon is, but have it open for analysis and discussion at this point.

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Tiger

EDIT> mispelled the thread title LOL (twice no less!)

Thanks very much Tiger, What size you estimate that orb light to be, or is it impossible to hazard a guess?

It's be impossible to set any sort of size figure as far as I can see since it neither passes before nor behind anything of a known size at a known distance from the camera (except as expressed in subtended angle, which would vary wildly in actual physical size depending on distance).

About the only thing that can be accurately said is that whatever it is, it is not a point source of light, which means that it is close and large enough to actually have dimension to it... but saying that isn't saying much as it could be a tiny thing very close or a middlin' size thing in the near distance or something large at extreme distance and give the same images under any of those conditions.




Tiger

First impression was lens flare. But circles of flare tend to be fuzzy this seems more solid than that. In addition it doesn't appear to move relative to the corona of the outer flare

Whatever it is, it holds the exact same size and symmetrical three lobed shape with the same orientation in all the stills in the composite gif.

That alone pretty much rules out lens flare since the shadows on the orbiter move considerably, indicating that the major source of illumination is changing angle of incidence. Lens flare will alter appearance (especially apparent size) according to angle of incidence.

Edge effect flare (caused by internal reflection from the edge of the lens) will alter shape and/or orientation as angle of incidence changes.

Pretty much all of the possible hardware artefacts seem to be ruled out by the nature and movement of the whatsit.




Tiger

It seems like the object is on the outter part of the planet, then appears in front of it, is that an optical illusion?

Who knows what it is? Nice of them to show it. Hopefully they'll get alot more. Keep NASA honest. Or make them look like fools for not admitting other things are up there as well.

Thanks Tiger.