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Additional Images taken on May 9th, 2003 showing how the current claimed "Planet X" images are taken

Recently, Nancy Lieder has been providing images of a "second sun", that she claims is the "red persona of Planet X" being bent by the Earth's gravity. They're nothing more than reflections of the sun itself in the lenses of the cameras being used. After looking through my archives of images that I've taken, I've found an image that exactly represents what's being seen on the "second sun" images. Below is an image I took of the sun last July (2002) with an Olympus D450Z digital camera. The image has been reduced in size 50% to save space.

As you can see, the "second sun" is quite visible above and slightly to the left of the sun. This is a camera artifact, an internal reflection between the separate lenses that make up the optics of the camera. Even while being a coated lens (anti-reflection coatings, typically magnesium flouride), even bright light sources will create such a reflection in good optics. The position of the artifact depends on the angle of the camera lens to the bright object, and will even occur if the bright object is not in the field of view, or in the image frame. Notice that the sun is slightly below center in the frame above, and slightly to the left of center. If you look closely, there's even a reflection of the reflection - to the right, and slightly below the first reflection, and slightly larger. The number of single lenses that comprise the whole, has a direct affect on the number of artifacts. Each lens surface is a possible reflection source.

The same artifact was demonstrated in images I took recently indoors, where the light source was an incandescent bulb outside the field of view of the actual image, but the light was still entering the lens at an angle. One of those images is shown below.

This clearly demonstrates what's being touted as a "second sun" by Nancy Lieder, and those intent on hoaxing images.

Lastly, Nancy's planet is supposed to be almost 30º away from the locations on these new images. As far as "red light bending" due to the gravity of Earth (which it doesn't do to any noticeable degree), an effect such as this would indicate that nothing we see in the sky is where it's supposed to be. Nancy's planet X rises almost a full two hours after the time of the Greek images. That means (since Nancy claims sunlight bends as well) that the sunrise as we know it, occurs two hours before it physically clears the horizon, and we can see the sun for two full hours after it has physically fallen below the horizon. Since we can precisely measure the apparent distance from the sun to other stars, we know for a fact that this does not occur at the horizon (to the extreme degree that Nancy claims). There is a small amount of refraction, but so slight that it's almost negligable. Certainly not 30 full degrees.

I don't think so Nancy. Nice try, but no bannana.

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