A8 MINTAKA · PHYSICAL TELESCOPE WITNESS
SEP 18 2026 · EPOCH-7 REPEAT OBSERVATION

STATUS
QUALIFIED MINTAKA FIELD-IDENTITY WITNESS

PURPOSE
Repeat the Sep-15 Mintaka companion-star observation using the
current Epoch-7 physical chain.

This record preserves the observed stellar geometry and the
physical RAW state visible in the recording.

It does not redefine the Mintaka recurrence.
It does not retune Core20.
It does not establish Meridian-0 by itself.

SOURCE VIDEO
20d7d38a-7b34-4745-9987-9c97b45297e0.mkv

SHA-256
2f4c1ed99a754102c1a4bd13f81f79a26edac8a756965a5845b069b6e9997c3c

VIDEO
1280 × 800
30 fps
duration · approximately 37.9333 s

FIELD IDENTITY
Mintaka primary clearly visible.

Faint companion visible below the primary and recovered at a
stable detector offset through aligned-frame analysis.

COMPANION GEOMETRY
X offset       · +9.22 px
Y offset       · +90.12 px
separation     · 90.59 ± 0.14 px

Sep-15 qualified separation
89.96 ± 0.68 px

repeat difference
0.63 px

The Sep-18 separation agrees with the Sep-15 companion measurement
within their combined measurement uncertainty.

TRACKING-OFF STELLAR DRIFT
X velocity     · +25.8805 px/s
Y velocity     · -2.6824 px/s
track speed    · 26.0191 px/s

Companion axis versus observed stellar drift
approximately 90.085 degrees

The companion geometry and stellar drift are therefore essentially
perpendicular in this observation, repeating the useful Mintaka
field signature seen on Sep 15.

DETECTOR-CENTERLINE WITNESS
Closest measured primary centerline frame:
approximately 20.4 s into the recording

A8 clock displayed
16:05:08

PRIMARY PHYSICAL
SOURCE_EPOCH     · 7
RAW_COUNT        · 1,839,845
REPORT_SEQUENCE  · 170,962
STATUS           · ACTIVE

GHOST PHYSICAL WITNESS
run              · b042abe1-9bcf-4894-bbb8-0a9c3d5eb0c3
RAW_COUNT        · 1,827,675
SEQUENCE         · 296,097
STATUS           · ACTIVE

Measured primary image center
X · approximately 512.915 px
Y · approximately 453.019 px

SEMANTICS
RAW 1,839,845 is retained as the physical Epoch-7 RAW associated
with this detector-centerline observation.

DETECTOR CENTERLINE IS NOT AUTOMATICALLY MERIDIAN-0.

The observation becomes a Meridian-orientation witness only when
the detector geometry is tied to the A8 Meridian-0 relationship.

No UTC, host clock, browser clock, or external ephemeris is used
here to define the physical RAW relationship.

RESULT
PASS · Mintaka field identity independently repeated.
PASS · companion separation repeated near 90 pixels.
PASS · Epoch-7 physical RAW preserved.
PASS · Ghost simultaneously present as independent physical witness.
NO RETUNE.