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Oct 24, 2019 at 16:36 comment added Nick T There aren't fins on a Falcon 9, but the engines are arranged with 8-fold symmetry octagonally around the base, plus one in the middle.
Jul 26, 2016 at 14:56 comment added scottbb I wasn't commenting on your answer. I was commenting on your comment to @NickT comment. Stabilizing fins of the rocket?? How can fins at the top of the rocket, nowhere near the rocket exhaust, be an aperture for light not going through it?
Jul 26, 2016 at 14:51 comment added Brandon Dube @scottbb my answer is general. Here, it is probably the stabilizing fins of the rocket.
Jul 26, 2016 at 13:57 comment added scottbb @BrandonDube how is the sun or its geocorona involved in a shot of a rocket at night?
Jul 25, 2016 at 14:22 comment added Brandon Dube @NickT There's nothing that says the apertures causing the diffraction pattern cannot be the sun, its geocorona, or the earth's atmosphere.
Jul 25, 2016 at 13:50 comment added Nick T The amateur and SpaceX video have nearly the exact same angles, doesn't seem random, and is symmetric along the vertical and horizontal.
Jul 25, 2016 at 13:44 history answered Brandon Dube CC BY-SA 3.0