Extra object in Skyserver image?

• by Abe_Hoekstra

  

  Posted December 1, 2017 3:50 PM

• by Abe_Hoekstra

  Sky View

  Nothing of interest in this image.

  

  Posted December 1, 2017 3:55 PM

• by Abe_Hoekstra

  Also visible in DR 14. Artifact? Transient astronomical object? Muffin?

  Muffins are very green, this object not so. But it will probably turn out to be an artifact.

  https://talk.galaxyzoo.org/#/boards/BGZ0000004/discussions/DGZ0002s2h

  http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?topic=276702.msg397290#msg397290

  Posted December 1, 2017 4:00 PM

• by Budgieye moderator

  Weird,eh?

  

  http://skyserver.sdss.org/dr14/en/tools/explore/Summary.aspx?id=1237648704055738850

  Mjd-Date 03/21/1999

  

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  ![http://skyserver.sdss.org/dr14/SkyServerWS/ImgCutout/getjpeg?TaskName=Skyserver.Chart.Image&ra=218.936003735215&dec=-0.258156043462782&scale=0.09903175&width=250&height=250&opt=G&query=&Grid=on]

  DECaLS and SDSS dr14

  PANSTARRS and GAMA/KiDS

  http://ps1images.stsci.edu/cgi-bin/ps1cutouts?pos=218.936003735%2C+-0.2581&filter=color&filter=g&filter=r&filter=i&filter=z&filter=y&filetypes=stack&auxiliary=data&size=100&output_size=256&verbose=0&autoscale=99.500000&catlist=

  http://legacysurvey.org/viewer/jpeg-cutout?ra=218.9360&dec=-0.2581&zoom=16&layer=decals-dr5

  http://legacysurvey.org/viewer?ra=218.9360&dec=-0.2581&zoom=16&layer=decals-dr5

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  http://skyserver.sdss.org/dr14/SkyServerWS/ImgCutout/getjpeg?TaskName=Skyserver.Chart.Image&ra=218.936003735215&dec=-0.258156043462782&scale=0.07&width=256&height=2000&opt=&query=

  Posted December 1, 2017 7:13 PM

• by Abe_Hoekstra

  I wonder, could this be some kind of variable transient, that lights up every now and then? I am asking because the feature to the right of the galaxy has also got a greenish color. Could the transient make that feature glow green?

  Posted December 1, 2017 8:22 PM