Newsgroups: alt.astronomy,alt.ufo.reports
From: kymhorsell@gmail.com
Subject: unusual light variations seen by space telescope between earth and moon #3

[uploaded 61 times; last 31/10/2024]

Datascience has some links with Deming's notions about "quality" and
90% of the work involves continual improvements -- at least we hope
they are improvements -- to the various programs and scripts we play
with to make the output more and more reliable and understandable.
Hopefully to your average Board member, but no-one really expects miracles
so we'll call that an ideal.

I've been watching the various movies the AI's have been producing
where mns of images from the TESS telescope have been stitched
together to look at anything else that may be spotted as it orbits
twice a month in the region between earth and moon.

It's becoming more obvious one of the datastreams put out by the TESS
community is much more interesting than the others. The so-called
"background" photometry for each of the ~5k stars they are looking at
for planetary transits also seems to be spotting a lot of other things.

The "background" data series is the photometer output for about 64
pixels around the central pixel that is (hopefully) centered exactly
on the target star. The fit is rough because the TESS pixel is around
26 arc seconds across, compared with e.g. the Sun at 10 LY that would
be only roughly .01 arc seconds across.

So the background gets the average brightness of quite a chunk of
space.  And if you have the background data for 1000s of stars at all
positions in the sky you can make a movie that runs (if necessary! :)
second-by-second from sometime around mid 2018 up until now.

If there is something or things messing around between the earth and moon 
and it emits or blocks light then we should see it. Right?

The latest movie is at 

	<http://kym.massbus.org/UFO/moviebkg.mp4>. 

It's a much cleaned up version of others that were put up over the past wk 
and seem to have attracted the interest of dozens of anonymous IP's. :)
(I monitor the website because that's another things quants do.
Try to relate every dataum they have with everything else.
And, yes, there seem to be patterns that relate hits to various web
pages with UFO sightings, so who know who or what is listening :).

How the latest one relates to the other movies of the central pixel and the
"planetary transit detection ready" central pixel photometry are now
becoming clear. Watching the central pixel -- where the target star is 
supposedly located -- can more easily detect dark objects moving between the 
star and the TESS telescope, but looking at the background area around the 
target star (and usually containing other, much fainter, non-target stars)
is much better at seeing objects that have a brighter-than-average
brightness compared with the background.

Looking at the movies side-by-side we note the background flux looks
to be somewhat the "negative" of the central-pixel flux.

This then tends to confirm the telescope *is* seeing something
interesting.  Things that may be passing between the telescope and the
target stars TESS is monitoring "mostly" pick up darker objects; those
that are brighter than background space are picked up by the
"background" flux datastream.

Whether some or much of the activity we see in the movies are things
other than meteors, asteroids or comets or other things that are
expected to be seen when looking out from the space between earth and
moon remains to be proven. But we also know that the brightness of
individual 10x10 deg squares from the movie do correlate to high
statistical certainty with reported UFO activity over N Am where
witnesses say they have seen e.g. "pale lights" moving over the sky in 
much the way of satellites although 1/2 the time going in the "wrong"
direction -- supposedly satellites that go against the earth's rotation 
are too uneconomic to launch and all sats go in some way from west to east.

So knowing about the UFO correlations it's interesting to see in the
movie there are periods were there are sequences of pulses of
brightness across narrow bands of RA as seen by TESS. Every few days
at some points in the movie we see bright pulses between Dec -60 and
Dec 20 at RA ~100 deg. But there are other repeated patterns in other 
parts of the sky, including bright lines across ~Dec -60 and +60 and also
dark pulses in some parts of the sky (harder to detect, as above, because we 
are looking at the region in the background of bright target stars the 
telescope is monitoring for planetary transits).

So things are definitely heading into interesting areas.

Datascience is all about continual tinkering and improvement.  And the
next thing the AI's are suggesting can be done is to relate certain 
flashes and pulses seen in the movie to actual reported UFO sightings at 
various locations. It may be possible to enhance the various movies, in
particular the background flux data, to notate which flashes
relate to what kind of reported object as seen in what US state.  It
may be possible to track objects seen on a certain date over the US to
the part of the sky where they originated and/or went to.

There is already other work that has suggestions in that regard.  We
might assume some reported objects originate from (the vicinity of) 
certain planets.  We can ask the question -- can we find a constant speed 
such that activity reported over earth "most likely" originated from 
a specific planet with objects travelling in straight lines at constant
speed over the distance between said planet and the earth.
Do the assumptions end up looking like the distribution of UFO
sightings of a given type we actually see? The answer is an emphatic yes.

We now wonder whether the list of likely planets that best line up with
reported UFO sightings is the same one, or substantially the same
one, as the one we might determine by back-tracking UFO sightings to what 
the TESS telescope saw a few days before and/or few days after.
What planets are mostly in the region of the sky that TESS sees the 
related brightening or darkening happening in?

Execution proceeds.

--
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
- Marie Curie