Amazing flares the planet Venus

[Deleted member 4320]

_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXRdrfGOpJA

"Last news" from the planet Venus. What think about it?

 

[Cosmos]

_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXRdrfGOpJA

"Last news" from the planet Venus. What think about it?

first question : is that really Venus in the video ? or is it the sun ?
second question: is there any data or article that talks about this "event" besides this video ?
third question: if it was Venus, what was this "explosion"(wich looks like a CME explosion from the sun), did it happen before?......

 

[Laura]

It does look like it is Venus. They don't make those kinds of videos of the sun without having the blocker in place. Ya'll see if you can track down the original video on the NASA or spaceweather sites or something.

 

[Laura]

This posting of the same video sez:

Image artifacts - Internal reflections
Light reflecting inside the telescope optics, and diffracting off edges within the telescopes, can produce some interesting effects. Consider this series of images showing the planet Venus leaving the field of view of the HI1-B telescope between Janary 26-31, 2009. As Venus approaches the edge of the field-of-view, a ring shape is seen apparently coming out of the planet. This is caused by reflections of the bright planet off of the camera barrel. (If you look closely at the full-field version of the January 26, 2009 image above, you'll see a large, faint bubble on the left side of the image, which is also an internal reflection of Venus.) The ring grows progressively larger as time goes by. On January 31, a horizontal streak appears near the position where Venus disappeared. This latter effect is caused by diffraction off of the optical baffles. http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/artifacts/artifacts.shtml

Not sure I believe the explanation, but do note the actual date of the event.

 

[clerck de bonk]

Here's another one explaining the same... __http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBoSYl0H-f8

 

[Nienna]

This posting of the same video sez:

Image artifacts - Internal reflections
Light reflecting inside the telescope optics, and diffracting off edges within the telescopes, can produce some interesting effects. Consider this series of images showing the planet Venus leaving the field of view of the HI1-B telescope between Janary 26-31, 2009. As Venus approaches the edge of the field-of-view, a ring shape is seen apparently coming out of the planet. This is caused by reflections of the bright planet off of the camera barrel. (If you look closely at the full-field version of the January 26, 2009 image above, you'll see a large, faint bubble on the left side of the image, which is also an internal reflection of Venus.) The ring grows progressively larger as time goes by. On January 31, a horizontal streak appears near the position where Venus disappeared. This latter effect is caused by diffraction off of the optical baffles. http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/artifacts/artifacts.shtml

Not sure I believe the explanation, but do note the actual date of the event.

This was my thought, too, while reading the above. They always say it is light reflecting off of whatever is viewing the event. Which is true enough in a lot of cases, which makes it all the more convincing when that is not the case.

It seems to me that there are waves coming off of what looks like the sun before this "reflection of light" shows up.

 

[seek10]

The video has dates there is solar radiation coming from sun from 24 on wards as if it is a from sun flareup and venus flareup started around 12/27 13:00 to 12/28 15:00 . Doing some guessing here- Venus being new entrant to solar system around 5000 years and transitioned from comet to planet very recently, It is still damn hot and electrical discharge from sun due to the army of asteroids must be doing some thing big there.

 

[Muxel]

The one from July 2009 looks backwards to me.
Venus crosses the "longitude" where Mars is in all instances? Could be significant.

 

[combsbt]

Just now seeing this topic.

For what it's worth, this is related.

_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5VcDaPqmNg

It's a video explaining a similar ring reflection with Jupiter that people created a fuss about a while back because Elenin happened to be in the field of view as well.

From what I've seen in this video...

Here's another one explaining the same... __http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBoSYl0H-f8

and the video that I posted. It does seem that these events are consistent with lens flares. They always occur when a bright object nears the edge of the field of view, and the ring expands from a point or contracts to a point depending upon whether the object is entering or leaving the field of view. The one with Venus does look rather odd though, and they are strikingly similar to the magnetic loops associated with CMEs so it's hard not to speculate.

 

[combsbt]

The only thing that bugs me about one of the Venus ones is this.

There is a second loop on the backside that doesn't occur in any of the similar videos and seems weird from an optics-lens-flare standpoint.

 

[combsbt]

Also, Venus has been acting rather strange lately...

_http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/02/scienceshot-is-venus-slowing-down.html

Article above: Venus appears to be slowing its rotation.

_http://www.sott.net/articles/show/243751-Surprise-Venus-May-Have-Auroras-Without-a-Magnetic-Field

Article above: Venus exhibiting auroral activity yet has no magnetic field of its own.

All this, and it is a relatively rare time period for Venus with respect to the Earth. It transited the Sun from our vantage point in 2004 and will again this year in June. Before 2004 the last time this event occurred was 1882 and after this year the next will be 2117.