by rigelan » Wed Nov 07, 2007 12:24 am
You can kinda of guess at the size of it based upon the curvature of the sun, it looks like the front picture may be 1/32 of the sun's circumference. The sun is wide, massive. See as the sun's radius is 700000 km, 2 * pi * r = 4.4 million kilometer circumference.
Divide that by 32 = 150,000 km wide picture
The diameter of the earth is 12,000 km. So this picture could be up to 12 earths wide. But my estimated 1/32 of the surface may be too large. I would put the width of the movie at 2-5 earths wide.
You can kinda of guess at the size of it based upon the curvature of the sun, it looks like the front picture may be 1/32 of the sun's circumference. The sun is wide, massive. See as the sun's radius is 700000 km, 2 * pi * r = 4.4 million kilometer circumference.
Divide that by 32 = 150,000 km wide picture
The diameter of the earth is 12,000 km. So this picture could be up to 12 earths wide. But my estimated 1/32 of the surface may be too large. I would put the width of the movie at 2-5 earths wide.