Agreed, but still a mystery. I wouldn't expect any piece of it (except a gas cloud) to be brighter than +1 or so, and apparantly many of the dots are several magnitudes fainter than the brightest. If so, they could just as well be stars (though as I implied not so many in that FOV) > > He said the debris field picture was taken when the Sun was still up. > > I've taken a lot of astrophotos and I don't think even the brightest > stars would register in so short an exposure (1/500 second) with so small > a telescope. And I counted well over a dozen "objects" in the picture, > all of which he said were moving. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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