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Re: OK Nancy, Where Is It?


In Article <[email protected]> I’m Open Minded wrote:
> Nancy Lieder wrote:
>> The Palomar 45 Minute CCD shows dim objects about 
>> twice as strong as the Zeta Coordinates 20 Minute CCD, 
>> so one would assume that if SOMETHING were within 
>> the red circle it should be twice as strong in the Palomar
>> as in the Zeta Coordinates CCD.  But the opposite is the
>> case.  The Palomar has nothing there, but the Zeta 
>> Coordinates has SOMETHING.
>
> Whoops ... not so fast Nancy.  If you had processed the 
> PSS image in the same way you would have seen the 
> same object. It was there 50 years ago and also 10 years 
> ago.  See my updated web page:

Not so.  I likewise did the same contrast and brightness changes done on
the Jan 5, 2002 images, and as I said, the object in the red circle is
NOT on the Palomar.  This is laid side by side at:
  http://www.zetatalk.com/usenet/use90375.htm