NavList:

Frank,

From almost the very first second, it has struck me that Alnair is exactly rising from the slope and that less than 5 seconds later, if not 2 seconds later it would have been fully and brightgly visible.

As a support for it, I am submitting this narrower picture excerpt. It is not the best sight since on my computer I can vary the scale of the picture and this bright spot can be better singled out of the background. This "brighter" shining spot is almost exactly in the middle of this second attachment picture alongside the slope, and it does not look like the other "more or mess rectangular" oblique ones stepping down alongside the slope to the right. This one much rather looks like a single and quite singular "bright dot".

This is what I am believing to be.

Or better : I do see this unusual bright dot, and I am curretly interpreting it as rising Alnair because its position fits so nicely with all other clearly or more faintly visible nearby stars.

Also the fact that you did - unexpectedly to me - ask "where is Alnair" came as some kind of a confirmation about the possibility that Alnair is actually just and barely visible ("grazing rise") in spite of not being immediately and instantly visible.

To conclude: what is the exact reality from the picture : Alnair actually rising or just an artefact ?

If some forensic study of this picture too could be made from adequatly trained specialists, that might give us extra insight and turn out to be very helpul.

Best Regards,

Kermit

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