Anyone know what this blip in the ISS orbit is?

It might even have been a small earthquake! Or a shockwave from blasting in a mine/quary somewhere.

Bart.

Dang! Must have been a whopper of an earthquake to affect the ISS all the way up there!

Respec!

Ha I see it!
Dave got me thinking it was something on the lense.
Its actually a TINY flaw in the glass (it almost looks like a hair, but it's
definatly either convex or concave, I can't tell witch)
The light is bending around it.

I guess it's good enough to pass inspection for every day uses of a camera.

I think I've also a spot of mold growing inside.
It's showing up as a faint grey smudge on pictures.
Is there anything can be done about it?

Ha I see it!
Dave got me thinking it was something on the lense.
Its actually a TINY flaw in the glass (it almost looks like a hair, but it's
definatly either convex or concave, I can't tell witch)
The light is bending around it.

I guess it's good enough to pass inspection for every day uses of a camera.

I think I've also a spot of mold growing inside.
It's showing up as a faint grey smudge on pictures.
Is there anything can be done about it?

Uh... that's *not* it! A flaw or spec of dirt on or in the lens will not produce a localised effect at the image plane. *Every* part of the lens contributes to *every* part of the image, so the aberation would be evenly dispersed throughout the entire image - most likely manifesting itself as a slight loss of sharpness only. My money is still on the curries... or possibly (but only if I'm pressed) a tiny jolt to the camera. Come to think of it, an insect smacking into the camera would probably do this!

Phil.

Come to think of it, an insect smacking into the camera would probably do this!

So it's a photography bug!


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I'll get my coat ....

Not knowing the design, there might have been a lens in the camera where one of the surfaces might be visible in the focal plane, just like having a spec of dust on a barlow will show up in a toucam planet image or visually through a scope, thats all I was thinking.
Frank, I reckon it might be difficult for you at the moment to put up an image of what you see.