From: jimmyw836@gmail.com   
      
   On Wednesday, July 5, 2023 at 11:00:25 PM UTC-4, Kym Horsell wrote:   
   > A quick post of some preliminary pictures.    
   >    
   > Comparing notes with other "sky watchers" there are 2 basic approaches.    
   > Twist and turn around to watch all parts of the sky at the same time and   
   hope you see    
   > something.    
   > (This is my preferred method in my own back yard -- check out the ufo diary   
   for details (only keyword searches available because of web scrapers)).    
   >    
   > Then there is the other method. Stare for hours at the same patch of sky and   
   either will something to happen (some folks claim this works; but I'm not so   
   sure ;) or just wait for    
   > something to happen because there is just so much going on you're bound    
   > to see something in any direction you pick.    
   >    
   > In the past couple ys I've posted some images and vids that do the thrashing   
   part.    
   >    
   > Now it's time to do some long staring and see what we can find.    
   >    
   > I've setup a new dir at    
   > .    
   >    
   > At present it contains a few vids for different parts of the sky the TESS    
   > space telescope has been looking at over the past ~10y.    
   >    
   > The main output today are the "equalized" movies of 100s of images taken   
   approx every hr.    
   >    
   > In most of them you will easily see "twinkling" of lots of stars. This is a   
   bit unusual for a space telescope.    
   >    
   > When you zoom in you sometimes see unusual things. Enhanced vis of that will   
   come in the next few days.    
   >    
   > You will also see some flashes in a couple of the vids currently up. Some of   
   these are noted in the images you get from the space tlescope website as   
   having "stray light from the earth or the moon". But other images that show   
   these kinds of flashes --    
   that look like lens flares -- are marked 100% OK. It's just that you have to   
   enhance the images to actually see the flashes; the software the TESS group   
   uses can't see it easily.    
   >    
   > Thankfully for us it means images arent even more heavily edited than I've   
   found some parts of the archive are.    
   >    
   > As I've mentioned several times it seems the number of images available from   
   space telescopes just before a UFO flap appears over N America are   
   stasistically less than average. Other images that are available are   
   mysteriously blacked out. It's as if    
   someone has been redacting things the public (or other scientists) are not   
   cleared to see.    
   >    
   > But the AI software is now tuned in to not only find things that might be   
   interesting to look at but    
   > also are likely to have been overlooked by any editing operations.    
   >    
   > As an old saying goes -- if you can ask an AI anything, just ask for   
   everything and let it work tit out.   
   xlnt.   Thanks!   
      
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