White streak ? double star?

• by Budgieye moderator

  Two bright objects? Seem a bit too bright to be stars.

  http://cas.sdss.org/dr7/en/tools/explore/obj.asp?id=588015509263482961

  Distant blazar which overloaded the ccd?

  SkyServer says star.

  NED has it listed as a galaxy, which mean "something which is not round"

  White colour, so not a moving object which would be green, blue red. Nor cosmic ray hit.

  Host galaxy is UGC 12363

  

  

  http://skyserver.sdss.org/dr9/en/tools/explore/obj.asp?id=1237663784191524947

  http://skyserver.sdss.org/dr9/en/tools/chart/chart.asp?ra=346.63043813&dec=0.17615963

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  EDIT: Forum search In SDSS, it is a stripe 82 image, so there will be many images of this galaxy.
  The stars don't seem as bright in SDSS dr7.

  http://cas.sdss.org/stripe82/en/tools/quicklook/quickobj.asp?id=8647474691939238037

  dr7 image

  dr7

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  Well, maybe just two bright stars.

  Posted February 13, 2016 7:03 AM

• by Ghost_Sheep_SWR

  Zoomed in / processed image from DECaLS DR2, really pixelated but still clearly two distinct bright centers. Also seemingly sort of 'halo' / ring, but my guess is this is caused by resolution + brightness of the likely stars.

  

  http://legacysurvey.org/viewer/jpeg-cutout-decals-dr2/?ra=346.630538&dec=0.1761423&size=512&pixscale=0.03&bands=grz

  Posted February 13, 2016 12:28 PM