AUSPICIOUS 8 · MINTAKA PHYSICAL TELESCOPE EVIDENCE
DATE · 2026-09-15
STATUS · OBSERVED · RETAIN FOR REPEAT-CROSSING TEST

PURPOSE

Physical observation of Mintaka against the direct Epoch-5 RAW counter.

The astronomical evidence lane uses the direct Epoch-5 physical count.
The older Core20 civil/mapped clock is retained only as a comparison
display and does not define the Mintaka observation.

CORRECT OBSERVATION CLIPS

Kooha-2026-09-15-05-39-23.mkv
Kooha-2026-09-15-05-49-19.mkv

The earlier Sep-14 candidate was later determined not to be Mintaka.
It is not retained as qualified Mintaka astronomical evidence.

PHYSICAL ANCHORS

FIRST OBSERVATION

local legacy frame time      05:39:23
legacy meridian-0 comparison 11:39:23
Epoch-5 RAW                  854862790
Core20 display               15:35:41 A8
Core20 legacy comparison     11:40:03.6
civil-display lead           +40.6 legacy seconds

SECOND OBSERVATION

local legacy frame time      05:49:19
legacy meridian-0 comparison 11:49:19
Epoch-5 RAW                  854880929
Core20 display               15:49:51 A8
Core20 legacy comparison     11:50:00.8
civil-display lead           +41.8 legacy seconds

PHYSICAL RAW ADVANCE

RAW delta                    18139
legacy comparison interval   596 seconds
observed RAW pace            30.4346 RAW / legacy second

The approximately 41-second civil-clock offset belongs to the older
Core20 mapped/civil lane. It is not used to modify Mintaka evidence.

IDENTITY / CAMERA GEOMETRY

The correct target shows Mintaka's visible companion.

Measured companion separation:

89.96 ± 0.68 detector pixels

Mean companion detector direction:

approximately 87.73 degrees screen-down from screen-right

Tracking-off stellar drift:

clip 1 · 25.79 px/s · direction -2.47 degrees
clip 2 · 25.88 px/s · direction -2.29 degrees

Companion-defined celestial north and the measured stellar drift differ
by approximately 90.11 degrees.

This gives a strong in-frame identity and orientation check: the
companion supplies the north reference while Earth rotation moves the
stellar field almost perpendicular to it.

SEALED PREDICTION COMPARISON

existing sealed stellar recurrence  2619132 RAW
earlier Meridian-0 marker           851617392 RAW
next predicted Meridian-0 marker    854236524 RAW

Legacy comparison reconstruction placed that predicted marker near:

05:56:25.5 legacy meridian-0 comparison

Independent conventional stellar-meridian comparison was approximately:

05:56:30.4

Difference:

approximately 5 legacy seconds early

At the two physical observations the reconstructed stellar phase was
approximately:

+30.3 seconds
+31.1 seconds

The increase was approximately 0.74 second across 596 legacy seconds,
corresponding to an indicative rate difference of approximately 0.1235%
relative to the currently sealed stellar recurrence.

QUALIFICATION BOUNDARY

DO NOT RETUNE FROM THIS OBSERVATION.

These recordings strongly establish:

Mintaka identity
camera orientation
tracking-off drift
direct Epoch-5 RAW association
usefulness of the equatorial companion-star geometry

They do NOT yet establish a replacement stellar recurrence.

A later observation on another Earth rotation should independently
reconstruct another Meridian-0 RAW. Repeated physical crossings are
required before changing the sealed stellar recurrence.

OPERATING CHAIN

Mintaka geometry
→ physical stellar position
→ direct Epoch-5 RAW
→ reconstructed Meridian-0 marker
→ repeated-rotation residual

No browser clock, UTC clock, mapped Core20 raw, or external astronomy
source defines the physical RAW result.