Galaxy Zoo Talk

Sky Server zoomed out image

Subject: AGZ0002rfp

by Capella05 moderator

1/3 I think they are in fact diffraction spikes from a star off screen to the left. If you look at the widescreen image there is a similar..

Posted January 30, 2015 6:56 PM
by Capella05 moderator

2/3 but fainter artifact just below this one. Both spatially relate to 2 stars that happen to be imaged in a different field on the left.

Posted January 30, 2015 6:59 PM
by Capella05 moderator

3/3 Because they are in different fields we can have artifacts that would only be visible to images within this field. Hope this helps!

Posted January 30, 2015 7:05 PM
by williamaskew

I saw the star. these are visible on WISE

Posted January 30, 2015 7:09 PM
by williamaskew

i cant see the similar ones you talk about . could be my screen though.

Posted January 30, 2015 7:12 PM
by Capella05 moderator

http://skyserver.sdss3.org/dr8/en/tools/chart/chart.asp?ra=18.32208446&dec=23.26652521

Posted January 30, 2015 7:16 PM
by Capella05 moderator

1' below the bright one

Posted January 30, 2015 7:17 PM
by megadeth4ever8000

two red streams. #what is it???

Posted February 8, 2015 9:52 AM
by Claudio_Pulcher

intriguing 😃

Posted February 9, 2015 5:24 PM
by ElisabethB moderator

The two red beams are optical artifacts caused by a bright star outside of this image : http://tinyurl.com/pjot4sl

Posted February 9, 2015 5:27 PM