Hello, I need some help.

[stevepidge]

http://www.helioviewer.org/

The settings are below to view the object. It is a persistent spherical object much larger than jupiter and it does not move much at all. You can go back in time in the viewer and it is persistent. I thought it might be a CME but time lapse does not agree.Very strange indeed. What do you guys think it is?

Observatory: stereo A Instrument: secchi Detector: core2 Measurement: white-light

Edit: I really have no expertise at all in this arena and I thought I would come to get some insight on what this object might be. I apologize for being so blunt and to the point, I would just like to know what the object might be..

Thanks,

Steve

[Pete Presland]

Hi welcome to SGL from Pete in Bedfordshire i looked but i am not really sure what object you are referring too?

[stevepidge]

Hi welcome to SGL from Pete in Bedfordshire i looked but i am not really sure what object you are referring too?

here is a pic i captured.

[stevepidge]

It is the semi spherical image at about 3 o'clock.

[stevepidge]

[stevepidge]

Here is the most recent photo. The one above is from 2011

[Charon]

Welcome from me too.

[Grotemobile]

This might seem silly,but it looks like the moon.

I dont know, if that is possible.

Steve.

[bingevader]

Hello and welcome!

IT'S A SPACE SNAKE! ABSORBING ENERGY FROM OUR SUN AND ITS OFFSPRING WILL DEVOUR THE EARTH!

But seriously, I have no idea, other than to say it has been there since 22/01/2007, so I assume it is something on the sensor!

Cheers

[glowjet]

Hi Welcome to SGL, could this be a case of not what you are imaging, but what you are imaging through, as it appears to be in the same position over a period of years, I am not into imaging, but might I suggest, could it be a foreign particle trapped somewhere in the optical train. Logically, I am sure an object of those proportions, sat in the same position, in close proximity to the Sun, would have been picked up long before now

[Bizibilder]

Agreed it looks like an optical artifact. By the way welcome to SGL!!

[Pyrodave]

Hi and welcome to the lounge I agree with Glowjet and Bizibuilder it must be some sort of foreign body in the imaging equipment . If you scroll through the days it stays in exactly the same place

[ronl]

Hi Steve welcome to the lounge

I am not a solar observer so I'm afraid I will

leave it to the one's who know about these

things.

Good Luck and Clear Sky's

[Pig]

Hello & welcome

Shaun

[JamesM]

Hi and welcome to the forum

Clear skies

James