New Additions: 05h - STERE-Oh look, it's Venus. Again.

Venus. Venus Venus Venus. Oh how I do hate you Venus. Always confusing people, always misleading them to think you are something you're not. When will you cease to cause uproar?

But there are things I hate more. Things like people ignoring the importance of research, of checking the facts before stating their claims.

In some cases, especially with imagery from STEREO and SOHO, it can take a matter of minutes to disprove the claims of a Nibiru proponent, and show people what they're really looking at. Minutes. Literally. You and I could sit down, check a few web pages, double check them with some other software if we needed to, and job done, no Nibiru today, just plain old Venus.

So why can't Nibiru believers do these important few minutes of research? Why can't they check their own claims before unleashing them into the Internet wilderness? That's all I ask, check your own claims so somebody like me doesn't have to spending 5 minutes debunking them.

And to do so, here is a whole bucketload of links to help you out, and more may be added as time goes by. Check these links first, understand a bit about the satellites before you makes stabs in the dark as to what could be in the imagery, and know that there is always someone who will know more than you whom you can contact and ask questions to. I've done it, why can't you?

STEREO Home page: http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.shtml
Where is STEREO?: http://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/where.shtml (click on the Orbit Tool link on this page to generate customized plots for any date you wish)
Latest Beacon Images: http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/beacon/ (the very latest imagery, with links to a complete image search tools for individual satellites, instruments and dates)
What to look for: http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/stereo_images.shtml (guides to the instruments, imagery, fields of view and image artifacts)
Image Artifacts: http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/artifacts/artifacts.shtml (guides to all sort of image artifacts known to affect STEREO imagery, including examples and explanations)
Planet Finder: http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/beacon/planets/ (recent imagery with known planets labelled and circled - the most obvious page anyone should look at)

Sungrazer: http://sungrazer.nrl.navy.mil/ (includes information for both STEREO and SOHO, the latest comet discoveries, and planet transits through SOHO's view. These guys work on processing the COR2 data from STEREO, among other things)
Ghosts: http://sungrazer.nrl.navy.mil/index.php?p=news_arch89#ghosts (a news article going into detail about image artifacts, how they're created and so on)

Solar Stormwatch: http://solarstormwatch.com/ (interactive site that teaches you how to spot solar storms within STEREO imagery, and allows you to help science do exactly that)
Solar Stormwatch Forums: http://forum.solarstormwatch.com/ (if you find something unusual or have any questions, you can talk to the guys who work on the data directly)

Celestia: http://www.shatters.net/celestia/

Have any thoughts, questions, suggestions or corrections? Leave a message in the comments.

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[ThePloth]

So.. When u click the "what planets are visable" button, why wasnt Venus labelled on the stereo B but on stereo A ? Wouldnt it make more sense to label Venus on Behind as its 3 times the size?

[3WMElliott]

@ThePloth No, because Venus had left the frame by then, what you were seeing was the light reflected off the instruments. There simply wasn't enough of Venus left in view to label it Venus, if that makes sense, and the planets in view page only labels planets of course, not image artifacts.

[wg1222222]

I like your video and I m not saying this isn't Venus, or the new star we can all see now isn't Jupiter. My question is what is causing them to shine with such brilliance. If they shined like this all the time everyone wouldn't be asking "what is this". So true this possibly isn't Nibiru, but could this be a sign that it is here because to produce more light ther must be another light source. Also, think of this the scientist have never proven Nibiru or its legend is not true.

[3WMElliott]

@wg1222222 The HI instruments detect very faint sources of light, primarily light from CME's, which in turn become the brightest parts of the image (think solar eclipse - when the Sun is blocked out, its faint corona is now the brightest part we can see).

Even though HI1 doesn't directly look at the Sun, the Sun still lights up the planets. That light is also faint, but of course HI1 detects faint sources and brightens them up, so planets become the strongest light sources in the imagery.[cont]

[3WMElliott]

@wg1222222 [pt 2] Venus is the third brightest object in our skies behind the Sun and the Moon because of being lit up by the Sun, and I've been seeing Jupiter at night with no problems and my own eyes too. The problem is that many people are mistaking these light sources as something else entirely, when they are in fact just boring old planets, so to speak.

As for scientists proving Nibiru false, they don't have to - the burden of proof is on proponents to offer something worth investigating.

[WHDTV]

watch?v=6_am_pVo-Bc

[3WMElliott]

@WHDTV What that video calls Venus is a diffraction artifact caused by Jupiter leaving the field of view a few days earlier. It's explained here: stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/artifacts­/artifacts_reflections.shtml as well as a few comments down in response to XEpicChefCakesX asking about it too.

It's known, it's understood, it's happened many times before and will likely happen again - Venus is already creating the ring reflection now, so in a few days we'll likely see the diffraction too.

It's normal.

[TheGuardian222]

good deal! Intelligent and rational approach. Love common sense. Look, this approach is what I needed to dispel this kind of passion, it illustrates peoples want to beleive or fear.

[lenasvn]

You are so right (your info box). If one attemt to tell them what it is, you get attacked with beeks and claws, and you were'nt even rude. I will favorite this clip and put it in my box.

[Athatchica]

It doesn't matter. People will believe what they want to believe, and argue that official and scientific explanations are *clearly* trying to cover up a great conspiracy.

I think the greatest proof for all this being a fallacy will be Time. Just wait a few years and chuckle smugly at the thousands of people who were utterly wrong.

And then shake your head at the undeniable proof that Nibiru is coming in 2026.