Galaxy Zoo Talk

yellow bar

Subject: AGZ000dv3z

by zerefki

yellow band interfering in the image

Posted July 5, 2017 6:18 PM
by zoob1172

huge star south http://skyserver.sdss.org/dr9/en/tools/chart/navi.asp?ra=174.35582232&dec=-2.85296569

Posted July 5, 2017 6:23 PM
by ElisabethB moderator

Yep, this is a diffraction spike (optical artifact) caused by a bright star outside of this image (https://tinyurl.com/yaflks7q)

Posted July 5, 2017 6:50 PM
by humberto_maciel

Thanx to you 2 that said it's a huge star interfering =)

Posted September 25, 2017 4:18 PM