Bengalilol 5 days ago

I am puzzled by the « sun in visible light » picture: what is this # in the middle of it? (Physical phenomenom, or artifact from the pictures)

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spyder 5 days ago

That's definitely an artifact from stitching multiple images. But I'm not sure why they would leave it that way since it's quite noticeable, but I guess there is always some debate on how much post-processing should they do on a scientific images and some people prefer closer to the raw capture even if it's not perfect.

Thorrez 5 days ago

Oh yeah, that is interesting. I would guess an artifact from the pictures. Maybe those are the lines where they joined the different pictures together into 1 picture. I would think they could do a better job than that though.

Bengalilol 5 days ago

You can, somehow, view this # in the magnetic field map picture too. First I thought this was an artifact, but I highly doubt that they would leave such an amateur thing behind (and even amateurs don't get tricked into this). Besides from the visible picture and magnetic map, I don't seem to find any correlation with the other pictures.