The ISS Camera Recorded A Powerful Flash In The Constellation Peacock - Alternative View

The ISS Camera Recorded A Powerful Flash In The Constellation Peacock - Alternative View
The ISS Camera Recorded A Powerful Flash In The Constellation Peacock - Alternative View

Video: The ISS Camera Recorded A Powerful Flash In The Constellation Peacock - Alternative View

Video: The ISS Camera Recorded A Powerful Flash In The Constellation Peacock - Alternative View
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Interesting events can be found in a video published by NASA this summer on June 30, 2017. The description for the video says that it was made from the ISS on June 25, 2017. The video shows colorful auroras in the Earth's atmosphere. At the time of the video recording, the International Space Station was flying from southern Australia into the South Pacific.

The video clearly shows how a powerful outbreak occurs in the constellation Peacock on the star ξ Peacock. This star is located 106 light years from Earth.

In order to find out exactly where the outbreak occurred, I took as a basis two pairs of stars that are clearly visible in the video, located slightly with a tilt, and as a result of searching for such stars on star maps, I found them and the very star that produced the outbreak and was located to the left of this four stars. Visually, everything coincided and pointed to the Peacock ξ star.

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Peacock is a constellation of the southern hemisphere of the sky. On a clear moonless night in the constellation, you can see about forty-five stars with the naked eye, but only six of them are brighter than the fourth magnitude. Five stars form an elongated pentagon.

To the north of this figure is the blue and white star Peacock (α Peacock), which has a magnitude of 1.9 magnitude. This name is translated from English as "peacock". The star is located 183 light years from Earth.

Of particular interest to amateur astronomers is the Peacock χ variable Cepheid, which is clearly visible through ordinary binoculars. It changes its brightness from 3.9 to 4.8 magnitude with a period of 9 days.

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Another interesting object to observe is the double star ξ Peacock, its components have magnitudes of 4.4m and 8.6m.

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If such a powerful outbreak occurred on Peacock's epsilon, then telescopes or tracking stations, satellites, spacecraft and everything else available to astronomers should have noticed it, but I could not find any information about the outbreak that occurred on June 25.

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In addition to this mysterious flash in the video, you can see some unidentified flying object that appears in the frame from the left side, flies to the middle of the frame and then simply disappears.

Original video posted by NASA:

Well, okay, an incomprehensible object flew by, can be explained by a near-Earth asteroid or satellite, or God knows what else, okay, some bright lights are sparkling, but why is there no data on this so powerful flash that it is clearly visible on a rather mediocre camera installed on the ISS, although this double star epsilon Peacock is 106 light years from Earth.