Please Place your Planet X Related Captures Here

[Moderating Staff]

[Recall 15]

I use the 1 Floppy disk on a D link Web cam + the Soft Tebocam 2.62 a few minutes i got these pictures:

Time interval 1 minute Start at 8.00.00 Central Time

[Selim KARABIYIK]

Thanks Gerard for the video. It looks like a real object. It is not a reflection because it is behind the clouds.

[Chris Harris]

Northern NSW march 21 2012:

 

 

And the negative image:

[Tamarama]

[Tamarama]

This was taken 17 March 2012 at 2:14pmEST near Cape Hatteras, NC, USA

I think it's a capture of pX.  Can anyone confirm?? thanks! :-)

[Lawrence]

....this selection of 4 photos was chosen from a series of several photos taken with my HTC EVO 4G phone camera, using a floppy disk as a filter, in Wisconsin during sunset, starting at 6:34 PM and finishing at 6:59 PM, March 17, 2012.

...the progression of these photos follows the progression of the setting sun and the last two photos do not show any reflection/lens flare, as PX remains in the same position in all photos at about the 6:30 position.

[Chris Harris]

If anyone bothers to actually look at coronal cavities they will immediately recognize that they are elliptical and transient and not perfectly spherical:

 

 

 

 

[Stra]

Regarding Sun Occulters:

When capturing the sun directly, there is a lot of sun glare. Some cameras have integrated occulters, some don't. What you can do is use the environment: find some branches on a tree and use them as occulters in front of the camera.

No occulter, A LOT OF SUN GLARE spoiling the image:

Sun glare IS OCCULTED by using that standing pillar in front of the camera:

You can see the details around the sun are much better visible. NOTE: Don't use a standing pillar like I did, because it hides the entire bottom side of the sun! Use some sort of a tree branch sticking from the left side instead!

Again, past the pillar, sun glare returns:

You can barely see anything on this one, there's so much sun glare.

Also note: use different floppy manufacturers for different shades of red/maroon. Use single or double floppies. Try to make a video instead of a single picture. Experiment and do try to use some sort of glare occulter!

[Sevan Makaracı]

Heather,

Objects in the Western sky that you mentioned in your pictures are Venus and Jupiter. I'm adding below Stellarium output of given location and date/time.

[Chris Harris]

 Inspired by Alberto’s revealing photos, I thought that I would dismantle a floppy disk and have a crack at it myself. The following photo was taken using a Samsung L100 8 mega pixel auto digital camera with floppy  disk filter:

 

 

This was taken at about 11:00 am 10^th Feb 2012 in NE NSW Australia.

I then applied a negative colour filter using Irfanview 4.30 which resulted in this:

 

  

Other colour manipulation yielded this image:

 

  

There is clearly something distorting light at the 9:30 – 10:00 position…any comments are most welcome!