When a traveler approaches a distant forest, at first the forest itself is seen, then individual trees, and as the trees themselves become the focys, the size of the forest
may be lost as the traveler stops seeing the forest for the trees. Trends over the Fall 2002 viewing seasons show that:
| 1 | Where Planet X came through in the Sum and Median (when generated) of the images, indicating presence in all frames over the background, it was often
only discernable in single frames at first. |
| 2 | When at a distance, the entire Planet X complex of dust and tail and moons was taken to be Planet X, appearing as a dot. Where the brightness of this
complex increased steadily during the Fall of 2002, as the complex came closer the tail and moons separated from the Planet X body, thus seeming to
diminish the body relative to the rest of the complex. But when Dust Shrouding is considered, growing larger! |
| 3 | The tail first appeared as a pixel brightness haze, increasingly brighter and affecting more pixels, then seen as distinct swirls and then when the swirls
overlapped, as Dense Splotches. As the complex comes closer, and spreads, the individual moons become evident and separate from each other, thus
seeming to diminish the tail density. |
| 4 | As the dozens Moons began being recognized as Distinct Entities, increasingly Avis recognized as other than noise, the dense tail splotches stopped
showing up in the images. |
