Re: Planet X: FITS files (FYI Tholen)

I M Openmind wrote in message <c6cdf9f8.0212010512.cee21a3@posting.google.com>
> I M Openmind wrote in message <c6cdf9f8.0211300540.315cb796@posting.google.com>
> > I M Openmind wrote in message <c6cdf9f8.0211281523.52cbfc8d@posting.google.com>
> >> Steve Havas wrote in message <wMtF9.124970$ka.2909250@news1.calgary.shaw.ca>
> >>> The fits files of the Nov 16 images are now up: 
> >>> http://www.zetatalk.com/teams/rogue/n1area.htm
> >>>
> >>> Dave, Nancy refers to them as the Nov 15 images (night of Nov 15, morning 
> >>> of Nov 16) but they are one and the same and the header reads Nov 16.
> >>
> >> Useless without the dark!  When I try to download the dark I get
> >> ------------
> >> HTTP Error 404
> >> 404 Not Found
> >> The Web server cannot find the file or script you asked for. Please
> >> check the URL to ensure that the path is correct.
> >> Please contact the server's administrator if this problem persists
> >> -------------
> >
> > OK ... I found it ... just a typo on Lieder's part.
> >
> > If you want to do your own processing of the Nov. 15 (sic) images
> > taken on Nov. 16 
> >
> > I have done the processing and the "white persona" is a single pixel
> > defect. The "red persona" could be a star just at the bare minimum SNR
> > although if so it is fainter than 19th mag and is most probably 20th
> > mag and hence is the faintest yet claimed by Lieder to be her planet.
>
>
> I have looked more carefully and both "personae" are single frame
> pixel defects.  
> -------------------
> November 15 (actually November 16 UT) Repeated Nonsense
>
> Lieder, Havas, and Dell have repeated their usual image "analysis"
> nonsense with a stack of images obtained by "Naji" between November
> 16, 2002 05:59:31 and 06:53:38 UT. I show here the image posted by
> Lieder showing her identification of the "red" and "white" personae.
> Below I show the individual frames (dark subtracted and aligned) which
> Lieder/Havas/Dell have summed to make their analysis. I have placed
> markers on the locations indicated by Lieder. It is obvious that the
> "red persona" is caused by a pixel defect on frame 5 and the "white
> persona" is caused by a pixel defect on frame 8. (The ? spot is a
> defect on frame 4.)
>
> Taken in their totality, the images taken by Havas and Naji in
> September, October, and November, none of which shows any sign of an
> 11th magnitude planet, are pretty conclusive evidence that Lieder's
> planet simply does not exist.

I tried taking out frames 5 and 8 but I can still see something showing 
up at those locations. Also, the faint existing object that is just above 
and to the right of the "red" only shows up noticeably well on frame 7.

Steve Havas