Timeline for Blind spot in the Solar System
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| Aug 24, 2015 at 14:55 | comment | added | JDługosz | I don't know the resolution of the instruments available. The ship will appear larger if closer. Even if not resolved, the spectra will contaminate the reading. The fusion plume will be millions of miles long, much larger than the tiny ship. | |
| Aug 24, 2015 at 13:58 | comment | added | Burki | I think i understand. Yet, the ship is really tiny compared to the sun. Do you have any information wether or not a "speck" some 100 meters across could actually be noticed? Or would it be treated as a mote of dust / an error in image processing? | |
| Aug 24, 2015 at 13:29 | comment | added | JDługosz | There are probes looking at the surface of the sun continuously. That is one place they would certainly be looked at! A relatively cold cloud would show against it, too, so it doesn't need to be hotter than the sun's surface. Also, helioseismology looks at the spectrum in great detail, as do other instruments. So don't underestimate what it would take to be seen, and don't limit yourself to particular ways (e.g. by being hotter). Different is different. | |
| Aug 24, 2015 at 12:55 | comment | added | Burki | Supposed the engine was directly between the sun and the earth: is there really any system that would be able to notice the radiation against the background of the sun? | |
| Aug 24, 2015 at 12:01 | comment | added | JDługosz | assuming you mean an exhaust plume that shines in all wavelengths like a hot gas, any instrument looking in that direction would see it! So how would the cloak work if the ship works that way? "hey guys, I see what seems to be rocket exhaust, but the base appears to be empty where the rocket would be expected. is that suspicious?" | |
| Aug 24, 2015 at 11:20 | comment | added | Burki | is there anything that would be able to notice the ship with a really,really huge fusion reactor outshining anything in the vicinity? | |
| Aug 24, 2015 at 11:14 | history | answered | JDługosz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |