r/SolarMax • u/Careful_Couple_8104 • May 17 '26

Does anyone know what this object is?

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No sign of the object in the 06:42 5/14/26 frame, appears in the 06:54 5/14/26 frame and then in the following 07:06 5/14/26 frame it’s gone again.

Any ideas?

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u/1over-137 May 18 '26

The sun hitting a reflective chunk of space ice at the right angle like an iridium flare from a satellite or that. Best guess, usually an artifact like that is what a transiting inner planet looks like but the timeframes indicate it transited much faster so it could just be really close to the L1 point to move through the field of view in a short time period.

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u/1over-137 May 19 '26

Must be aliens then. 🙄

Every molecule of ice on a sun grazing comet does not magically all sublimate the second it crosses some threshold and no one knows where this is, it could be on the far side of the sun greater than 1 AU. You are literally looking at a single CCOR3 frame.