Amazing photo of the Sun

Originally posted by PokeyJoe
I coulda sworn that I saw that pic posted on here a while ago.....as in, not having to do with Atlantis or the Hubble.

In fact, im almost certain about that.

You did only it was the Shuttle and ISS in front of it



The Sun had the same texture that day as well

Taken by a French astronomer

www.sbig.com...

Funny that the SOHO images of the Sun never look like that

reply to post by atlasastro


and our sun is tiny! well not tiny but compared to other suns its a lil baby sun!

some suns are as big as our solar system "that is mind bending" : )

reply to post by symmetricAvenger


Actually they don't come more typical or is that an oxymoron? You know what I mean.

Apart from being the only close star, it's completely unremarkable.

reply to post by Welfhard


well its tiny

www.nasa.gov

www.space.com

go find a sun then look at our pretty sun

diddly !

; )

oh forgot to add "crazy how the sun looks with NO sunspots"

and in 300 years its never EVER EVER had zero spots. interesting ?

well im sure we will find out when the sun wakes up "i hope" in 2011

that is the new solar maximum "2012" anyone? yes im afraid VERY afraid lol

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reply to post by symmetricAvenger


Considering the ranges of sizes and compositions of stars, if you form a bell curve with that info, you'll see that Sol is rather typical. Sure it's tiny compared to "some" stars but that really doesn't mean anything.

Oh and no sun spots? We can only see a single hemisphere of Sol in that pic so it's hard to say whats going on.

well we can in fact see all around the sun

we have sats orbiting the sun ! just coz we live on earth dont think we only see one side

our sun is only a "typical" sun yes i agree but our sun is small VERY SMALL compared with other suns

my point was how massive other suns are and how nuts a sun the size of our solar system is !

SUN as big as our solar system.. sorry i had to say that twice so you understand the magnitude of SIZE

we think our sun is big .. www.universetoday.com check it out your head will explode


www.universetoday.com...

get your head around that little gem

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think our sun is big? haha check this out "in case you did not look at the link"



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Mind jarring, stunning, orbital! What an amazing picture. Thank you very much for sharing this with us. Its amazing how calm and lemony this image is. Makes me want to make a lemon pie.

reply to post by zorgon


Hey Zorgon, great pic. I must have missed it in the first stance!

but...what is that black dot in the upper right corner of the sun?

Originally posted by _Phoenix_

Originally posted by Scope and a Beam
I really don't get what's amazing about it lol just looks like a tennis ball.

True.


Now check these pictures out! Now these are amazing.

Here:
www.boston.com...

Now that is amazing.

seen a pic similar to this in my astronomy mag yesterday.

totally amazing!

great find S+F

reply to post by symmetricAvenger


there were over 200 days last year that the sun didnot have any spots.and back during the 1913 solar minimum there was over 300 spotless days. it is not that uncommon to have no sunspots on the sun especially during solar minimums.

reply to post by Scope and a Beam


Wow, I think what impresses me most is that he did that with a "5-inch refracting telescope". Wow, I had a 4.5Inch, and never thought that kind of picture could be possible with a small telescope. Nice!!

Calm and lemony...that's rich
I really enjoy images like this, great pics!

Though it was like some star ship >

reply to post by ngchunter


Still think its real buddy? I'd say the science points to HOAX.

reply to post by WonkoTheSane


why are you trying to "debunk"this picture?is he making sensational claims to it?its just a picture.enjoy it for what it is.

How unbelievably cool!! Real or hoax, I would love to get a high res version for my wall

I was thinking about how large Hubble is. Of course compared to the sun, it's a speck, but even up close to us at the distance our sun is away from us, it still looks tiny.

But then you think about how big Sol is compared to other stars out there.
The largest start that we know of is VY Canis Majoris



Imagine a shot of the Hubble travelling in front of that cosmic puppy.

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Quote didn't show. But anyway, thank you for sharing this really is an incredible photo.

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Originally posted by symmetricAvenger
reply to post by atlasastro

 

and our sun is tiny! well not tiny but compared to other suns its a lil baby sun!

some suns are as big as our solar system "that is mind bending" : )

did i not say this?