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Does anyone know what causes the "scanlines" we see throughout the image, e.g. https://viewer.legacysurvey.org/?ra=134.9718&dec=32.3736&layer=ls-dr9&zoom=12 htt

Does anyone know what causes the "scanlines" we see throughout the image, e.g. https://viewer.legacysurvey.org/?ra=134.9718&dec=32.3736&layer=ls-dr9&zoom=12 https://viewer.legacysurvey.org/?ra=134.9718&dec=32.3736&lay... ?

kryptn 6y ago
I might be misidentifying it, but they look like diffraction spikes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffraction_spike https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffraction_spike
sega_sai 6y ago
Saturation of the CCD detector and the spillover of the charge across columns(or rows)