- In the 16 Apr. image we can see a comet while it is not possible to see Mercury in each days (as my almanac SKYGLOBE expects). However the far stars background seems to be correct.
- Ben
SOHO has been accused of inserting images from their archives, so as to disguise a stalled orbit and the Planet X components and dust wafting about in front of the Sun, problems they struggled with in Fall, 2003. But having a comet pass in front of the Sun has perhaps forced them to use live images for the present. But note in the images below:
It´s all turning to light, all of it! What if SOHO has a bake out? Why is it so overexposed [Apr 16]?... I remember back in 1998/9 we used to see the whole frame sequence of comets entering frame and making a course all the way to the sun without a frame missing. The SOHO site has censored the last 6 or so images which showed the comet and a huge, expanding and brightening flare under the occulting disk arm. They are gone. This is outright censorship. They scrubbed the last 8 images which all of us saw and now they have been erased. ... I can´t say if it´s related, but the Mauna Loa Observatory hasn´t updated since about 1:06 UTC, either. There may be an embargo on anyone viewing Comet Bradfield. For the life of me though, I don´t know why. ... Latest I get here is 12 hours old. .... OK, this is strange. Never seen a double post of the same image on LASCO before. They just posted another 1:12 UTC image, above the blanked out ones. Something is definitely up. If they are trying to scrub, alter or edit the images.