Storyline: Mysteries from the armchair astronomer - by Greydon Moore.
| MYSTICAL ILLUSION |
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Feb 16 2005
The above image shows what we typically see in images offered by astronomers and viewed full in face on a computer screen, or in a publication. Seemingly similar to a lava dome, such dome shapes in interplanetary and moon's images have caused many a serious astronomer amateur or otherwise to pause scratching hair that sticks out from the crown, the finger of thought causing the hair to twirl in circles.
CRATOR IN ARIZONA
The dome is actually a crator upside down, this is a crator in Arizona.
CRATOR IN STEREO
Seen in 3d (focus the two images together by eyesight) true stereo is obvious. This is a mono (single) image, displayed twice, the disply width of one vrs the other differs by the ratio 1.0034 to 1. The heights differ by 1.0059 to 1, but in this image are increased above original by 17 points - extra height increases the stereo depth, in complete contradiction to binocular stereo theories which deem only width displacement between two separate images which have no identical frame can reproduce stereo.
For instance IMAGE 1 above has height increased by 17 points. IMAGE 2 has height increased by only 12 points. The stereo depth in IMAGE 1 is obviously greater, notwithstanding an arbitrary vertical stretching in the image, look to small details to see how they stand out better, in IMAGE 1.
Stereo is visible anyway when two identical mono images are displayed in identical format (both widths and heights identical), demonstrating in a forceful way that stereo content is intrinsic in mono photos.
IMAGE 3 pair are displayed to exact size of the mono original, nothing is arbitrarily changed.
In the true to life mono image view of IMAGE 3, stereo is evident though not as striking as seen in IMAGE 1. Image formats such as adopted for IMAGE 1 improve circumstances seeking to understand a real view's 3d content. The straight across format of IMAGE 3 is more than enough to reveal a stereo, though usually not good enough to judge all image aspects in a certified way. This is where the IMAGE 1 format comes in handy.
IMAGE FORMAT MODE
The image pairs are displayed at 294 and 293 for width, a limited size width necessary to have the image pair display side by side in all different browsers and screen sizes.
The height format for IMAGE 1 was to divide height by width, and multiply by 300, then, add 8 points to the height result and display six image pairs one after the other, each adjusted with the heights increased by 1, then two points, then three more decreased by 1 point, then selecting the best stereo view. For instance starting with heights of 336 and 338, each height is also increased by 1 point through two increases, then decreased by units of 1 through three versions. Typically, out of a set of six images pairs will be one pair whose stereo is superior in subtle or noticable ways.
More optical illusion reasons
| MYSTICAL ON TRITON |
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Feb 17 2005
Brought into focus is a Feb 2005 release of a crator on Triton, seen by Cassini side scanning imagers. The suspician was that the done in the center of the image has smooth uprise grains on the inside of a rim of small peaks.
Turning the image around reveals what you would expect, a sunken crator inside a rim, with a wide area of hardened splashup inside the crator.
VOILA
Turning the image around by 180 degrees revealed the crator, cancelling the dome, which turned out to be mystical, the real truth hidden by the optical illusion.
And then, rotated by only 90 degrees allows wider image pairs to be displayed side by side, revealing more stereo details about the crator, and the spiky rim outside plus the spiky upsplash inside.
Ooops dome again. A top to bottom image flip, and rotation by 180 degrees, brought the mystically vanishing crator back into true perspective. Neither flip, nor rotation alone, eliminated the dome. This (dome) is a stubborn illusion.
The difficulty in contending with such mystical illusions is that you have to more or less know a hardfact's true concept (crators=indents) before overcoming mystical fakes. Try this on religions. You can see the difficulties there in an instant. Solving those difficulties is a world wide battle underway right now, with little relief in sight.
In assuming correctly that complexity increases exponentially with each extra step in any difficulties, witness that the Triton miracle had 3 mystical appearances, and only 1 correct view, in its difficulties.
The main trouble with Triton illusion persists, in not knowing the original universal frame in which the image was captured - what is up, what is down, what is east and west.
THe Arizona creator has fewer difficulties in that the crator can be in only one of two horizontal perspectives either up or down, due to the foreknowledge that the crator was photographed from above so has to appear below, not sideways. In lack of a blue sky or horizon, in this image the upness vrs downess (crator vrs dome) comprises the main difficulties, also that scientifically the crator is known to fullfil the descriptions of a crator and not a volcano's caldera. What about an exploded pimple on a giant god's belly button (a dome with spikes within). Another difficulty is in determining if the Arizona crator is from impact from a space object, or nuclear test.
We deem it safe assuming the creation was an object hurtling in many thousands of years ago. Conspiracy theorists can claim an underground nuclear test aftermath, but to pursue this line of reasoning also have to dismiss a scientist's best ways of determining ancestral or ancient age and to do this the conspirists are expanding their difficulties exponentially.
| THE RING NEBULA IN INFRA RED BY SPITZER |
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THE RING NEBULA IN INFRA RED BY SPITZER
Feb 16 2005
Different enhancements, compared, help to reveal more developements in the object's 3d contruction.
The 3d gradients are subtle between the images but significant in understanding the whole image (guesswork is removed).
Click for Spitzer original. The two vertical views above have been substantially enhanced revealing more minor details.
| CAUGHT IN THE ACT |
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Dec 29 2004
Anyone following the daily occurrences of sunspot solar flares will
notice that flares seem to be stronger when the sunspot is on the
limb of the sun, for instance a small spot has been crackling low
B class flares and occasional low C all the way across the face of
the sun, then suddenly cracks an M class flare or two before the
spot disappears rightward around the sun's horizon.
For example, the stupendous record breaking X class flare late in 2003 (of magnetude in the high 40's for X class) occurred with a particularly energetic spot right on the eastern edge of the sun just as it moving around out of sight in the sun's rotation.
Conjectures tended to think of something off in space at right angles between the earth and sun, a year later the off camera object if Jupiter would have rotated approximately a month to bring again a favorable right angle alignment to a flare crackling sunspot on the edge of the sun. In december of 2004 C and M class flares suddenly began to appear from a sunpot (713) now on the sun's eastern edge, a month later than the biggies that occurred in november of 2003.
However, in december 2004 suddenly another small sunspot appeared (715) arriving over the opposite edge of the sun and it too arrived crackling larger C and lower M class flares compared to a long spat of minor B's and even A class flares which were hardly noticable from earlier flares including (713).
This second flare-hot sunspot created an entirely different picture, one that supposes a flare's main energy is not straight out, but horizontal to the plane of the sun's surface. For instance a pizza plate touching the edge of a basketball with a handle sticking straight out from the pizza plate presents a model that can be very interesting, in that the main hots from a flare shoot out sideways, not vertically straight out where main thrusts of expanding cooler energy do speed out and becomes solar wind. The companion flashes in horizontal disks are hotter by orders of magnetudes.
A mystery yet unsolved is how the upper portion of the sun's atmosphere can be so hot, million degree temperature ranges with no known mechanism as to how to get so much heat out there.
Solar flares from sunspots, whose main temperature flux squirts out
sideways, can impart major disks of heat out into the sun's atmosphere.
Caught in the act.
In fact, the animation of a solar flare circ late december 2004 shows a brief intense hot circular flash close to the surface at right angles to the thrust of the outward ballooning flare.
On the one hand we have unexplained super high upper atmosphere temperatures at the sun. On the other hand we have exactly a mechanism, found in solar flares, to get extra temperature out there. One plus one equals two. Is this a correct equation? Perhaps. It is obvious that a disk of intense energy knifing horizontally sidways will pass through far more of the sun's atmosphere than does a bulb swelling straight outward from the surface.
The images in this link can be focused together to give an approximate idea of what the delta class magnetic field can be like associated with sun spots capable of generating X class flares. This sunspot (715) generated an X class flare of M1.7 magnetitude on January 1 2005.
| DISCRETE BREATHERS |
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Dec 31 2004
Convential wisdoms hold that the electromagnetic spectrum is like a lineal line of elephants, elephants at the radio end miles wide and hardly weigh a thing, and elephants at the x-ray end only a few inches across that weigh tons, and stationed throughout the length of this line are clusters with a starting weight and progressive weight decreased coupled with expanding size through a range, each range beginning with a rest state value, each value rigorously proportionately less then the preceding, for instance 25/16 as the ratio of force of one value set's rest state, 36/25 for the next value, 49/36 for the next, and so on out to elephants miles across who weigh practically nothing.
In investigating astronomy images it can now be said that 'Discrete Breathers' also exist in the line, but thus instead of elephants we now start with whales,, with elephants, then hippopotemuses, then rinocceroses, then walruses, then pigs, and so on, in terms of weights, and running the line in reverse in terms of size, except, it will not be the same whales at the larger sizes but related species which still behave like whales through the whale group of wavelengths.
Given that we now have a spectrum band described in terms of both size, and mass, discretely restarted along with way in new classes of animals, we now need to look somewhere in causality to see if we can find 'animals' in the expected 'discrete breathers' in the electromagnetic spectrum so called continuum.
It turns out there are discrete breather classes in the spectrum, of light representing mass and wavelengths in the plasmas comprising galaxies.
For example 'discrete breathers' states can be shown for infra red, visible light, and ultra violet radiant energy frequencies in galaxy images, when the image of each discrete breather is compared with each other.
Distinct characteristic turn up which can be used to define each broadband group of animals in each of the 'discrete breather' states for galaxies which can be seen at the present time circ. 31/12/04, It is probable that x-ray images refined to sufficiently highly detail resolution will show another group of animals, and so will radio images, perhaps more than one state in radio emmisions.
Reference - Theoretical Physics: On Discrete Breathers (Nature 2004 432:455).
Discrete breathers comprise tiny cloud tufts poking up vertically in bands of clouds sweeping horizontally.
Negatively charged updrafts amidst positively charged diffuse cloud densities characterize cloud behaviours on Earth.
Vertical negative updrafts amidst horizontal positively charged spreads are detailed regarding ultra violet light.
The same 'animals' occur in Andromeda and other galaxies, in the ultra violet waveband.
| DISCUS SHAPE PENETRATES THERMAL HEAT SHIELD RE-ENTERING THE ATMOSPHERE |
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Jan 1 2005
The Genesis project comes to an interesting conclusion
And so a new chapter in the long story of atmospheric re-entry is written. At labor for years, a satellite slowly gathers interspace dust and particles of solar wind for return to Earth for analysis. Everything is working fine, the satellite re-enters Earth's gravity and crosses the gravity line taking it on a plunge toward the surface. At a certain distance up, springs release a discus shaped cannister containing the actual collected goodies to then on its own parachute to ground level while the satellite burns up in intense heat as space debris. Only thing wrong with the carefully crafted plan is the devices to spring open the parachute failed to function and the discus hit the Earth at more than 190 miles and hour.
Called the Genesis Project, the reason for the failure is that blueprint plans were upsidedown when the parachute release mechanisms were installed and in the whole multi billion dollar enterprise no one got around to double checking the mechanisms to see if they would actually work.
Good news comes with the bad, in this case. The brass colored discus which smacked the earth its cargo of precious interstellar dusts and solar wind particles mostly intact, did not burn up in re-entry, in fact its casing did not show any signs of welder spots and burns in it. How come. The shape obviously had something to do with the safe plummet to Earth. Perhaps a larger cannister would have become dynamically instable enough to present burnfaces that would have burned up in the atmosphere. On the other hand, perhaps there is something in the shape of Ufo disks which have no fatal heat shield drag at high speed in Earth's upper and lower atmospheres.
The discus cannister, split open after a 190 mile an hour (300 kilometer an hour) impact in hard sand.
Perhaps the cannister's plunge and landfall are all too easily explained by mundane physics and properties of the actual descent, de-mystifying entirely the fact that the cannister did not burn up against a high speed heat barrier which normally incinerates anything in an add hoc plunge through the upper atmosphere.
Which brings to mind a second question, that media and science writers typically report, during periods of meteor showers, that the meteors are the size of grains of sand which burn up high above. This is like asking that a grain of sand under incandescent incarnation be visible from 60 miles away, because that is the height these meteors are seen. It seems more than a grain is required to be seen burning that far away, 60 miles up in the air, during a burn lasting dozens of miles long. If grains of sand with that much potency can be bottled up and sold to run cars, there would be little to no need for gasoline. What is needed is a more accurate routine desciption of the size of pellets comprising meteor showers.
Meteor photo credits - single (Wally Pacholka), multi (Fred Bruenjes).
You would think, with telltale photo looking up a focal tube to meteor source in the upper left, that it should be possible to tell exactly which way the nightime spot on earth was rotating in orbit, relative to the sun, but, the answer is not fast in coming, for instance first fact needed is to know which direction the meteors are entering in their own orbit, for instance an orbit from comet heading toward the sun, away from the sun, also, more, is the earth crossing the flux of cometary debris or catching up to it (unlikely), the guesswork precedes the answers by a wide dark band of speculations.
| THE MYSTERY OF OBLONG STARS |
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Dec 20 2004
In a Tarantula nebula photo by the (Eso/mpg 2.2-m+wf1) telescope.
The mystery of the oblong stars, slanted toward the lower right in the image. Most of the stars, small red, medium yellow, to large white, are oblong, except for white particularly the large most of these are circles. First onslaught of logic suggests oblongs are from motion of the camera attached to Earth during the time of exposure, suggesting that oblongs can be easily removed digitally from a picture leaving a better view without intervening stars peppered everywhere.
However, the solid smooth round stars stand outside of the logical onslaught. If they are at the Tarantula (where no glide of the telescope's image is the consequence of a vision parallex focused at Tarantula), the round white stars have to be powerfully bright.
If curious, the best way to study this image is in the much higher Dpi of a graphics editor, the image can enlarge showing the different vectors of the oblongs between the left and right side of the image. In browsers with poorer Dpi the variations are harder to see.
Web site/display/designs/image enhancements - Greydon Moore World's largest cosmic teaching site - Ottawa 2001/2004 form A & O 3 3
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