During the 2018 Malin award presentation I was overawed by the depths to which DM analysed images for their veracity.
During the presentation showed a USGS geological survey image of the Moon and overlaid it on the excellent lunar image by Stefan Buda and indeed verified the colours of the lunar terrain matched the documented geology, and were not a "Photoshop" fudge.
During the recent wash-up to this year's awards David let slip that my M42 image underwent similar scrutiny: there are stars in M42 that have significant proper motion. This was news to me.
But which one(s)? I recently decided to find out.
Using the Hipparcos satellite data within TheSkyX I located a suitable candidate, then up-scaled my image data to match that of a high-resolution ESO/Hubble image and created a .html rollover image.
The results are here
The roving star was indeed not at the same location as in the Hubble image and proved to be a very good thing as far as I was concerned!
