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Robert Walker

No planet is anything like bright enough for this. Venus gets quite bright but only when the sun is below the horizon, it can’t compete with our sun. It’s shining by reflected light after all and is at the far side of the sun when it’s at its brightest.

You can sometimes see the brightest planets when close to the sun by blocking out the sun, but they are almost invisible, pretty much the same brightness as the sky itself, you are looking for a tiny white dot against the blue sky, very hard to spot and I don’t think you’d see it at all in most photographs.

Comets can sometimes become daytime objects, bright enough to be visible in the daytime sky. But there isn’t any daytime comet in our skies right now. They are very big news if that happens. The Moon often is visible in the daytime sky but this looks too bright to be the Moon (hard to judge its size because of the lens flare around the sun).

Also - I can guarantee that if there was a real bright object like that near the sun, which anyone can see world wide, it would be an absolutely top story in astronomy. We’d all know about it. It would have to be visible world wide. And it would have to be next to the sun for everyone. Some would see it at sunset, some at sunrise, some with the sun high in the sky - we’d all see it at once if it was a celestial object so long as you have a clear sky.

So, it has to be something local. You might think of things like light reflecting off a shiny child’s balloon for instance.

But nearly always these are just either lens flares or offset lens reflections.

Lens flares are easy to spot because if you move the camera just slightly, they tend to move all over the place. Also if you put your finger in front of the sun, the sun disappears and all the flare images of it do also.

But offset lens reflections are more tricky. You get them by taking photographs through a window, or if you have a filter out of alignment on your camera. They produce a copy of the sun’s image but it may seem much smaller because the main image is made brighter by flare.

So, pretty sure that is what it is. As Jonathan Devor says in his answer Jonathan Devor's answer to What is this bright object next to the sun?,

The reflection is bright, and so just like the sun, the reflection also causes a “ghost image” offset reflection in the camera.

Notice that the reflection also has a copy at the same angle to it as the main sun.

That shows it is something local and not celestial. If it was celestial, then since it is higher than the sun in the sky, its reflection would be below the sun’s reflection in the sea. The reflection would have to be as much below the horizon as the sun is above. That might be a bit confusing as you have hills there, so you need to imagine where the real horizon is. I’ve added in a horizon line, to help.

Here is a very striking example of an offset lens reflection - a popular video on youtube:

And here is a detailed explanation of how these happen on metabunk, explaining that video:

Explained: Two "Suns" Sanibel Causeway, Florida [Offset Lens Reflection]

Incidentally it’s actually an offset double reflection. The light comes into the glass from the sun on the far side, hits the near side of the glass, bounces back through “internal reflection, hits the far side then comes back to your eye or your camera but now it’s offset because of the angled glass and those two reflections.

This is one of the example images, made using an offset lens reflection artificially:

Note that the main image of the sun is irregular and fuzzy because the sun is so bright it overwhelms the camera. While the offset reflection is much less bright so can be photographed as a perfect circle. It’s round because the sun is round. And the offset lens reflection can even seem to be behind leaves as in this example - that’s because the original is behind leaves as well which you can’t see because it is so bright. See Explained: Two "Suns" Sanibel Causeway, Florida [Offset Lens Reflection] for the details

This is another example of an artificially made offset lens reflection using glass attached at an angle in front of the camera

See also my Simple Ways To See Nibiru Is Totally Nuts - And Limits On Planets Hiding In Our Solar System

Please also take a look at my online petition at The world’s platform for change: Let's End Dramatized Reporting of "Doomsday" Stories - The Vulnerable Get Suicidal

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Robert Walker

Robert Walker

Writer of articles on Mars and Space issues - Software Developer of Tune Smithy, Bounce Metronome etc.
Studied at Wolfson College, Oxford
Lives in Isle of Mull
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