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- Mon Oct 30, 2006 12:09 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Sun Puffs - sense of scale (APOD 29 Oct 2006)
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Oh yeah
Oh, I can now see that it is a picture of the entire sun diameter. I had thought that that outer edge was the edge of the disturbance not the edge of the sun. So in fifteen minutes the shock wave traveled, what, twenty or thirty earth diameters or about two earth diameters per minute or three to for...
- Sun Oct 29, 2006 12:57 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Sun Puffs - sense of scale (APOD 29 Oct 2006)
- Replies: 6
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Sun Puffs - sense of scale (APOD 29 Oct 2006)
A lovely Sun image. I have found that I enjoy pictures of the sun more when I can get a sense of scale. How large is this sun eruption? How would an earth diameter compare with the size of this eruption? Earth's mass compared with the mass ejection? Does anyone know the scale that this image is repr...