A View to the Sunset (APOD 31 May 2008)

MrBill · Post by **MrBill** » Sat May 31, 2008 12:58 pm

An obvious mistake on this page. This pic could not have been done in 1/6 of a second. Looks closer to 20 or 30 minutes.

Case · Post by **Case** » Sat May 31, 2008 1:39 pm

http://www.photomeeting.de/astromeeting ... set1_d.htm

No mistake; exactly the exposure time that the photographer claims. And 0.17 sec sounds very reasonable, considering the "technique" used.

apodman · Post by **apodman** » Sat May 31, 2008 2:13 pm

It's an ABSTRACTION, man. I'm so narrow minded that I think a PICTURE is a PHOTOGRAPH, but APOD has taught me that a PICTURE can be a MOVIE, a SIMULATION, a COMPOSITE, or now APOD's first ABSTRACTION.

Expose yourself to ART, but only for 1/6 of a second.

l3p3r · Post by **l3p3r** » Sat May 31, 2008 4:19 pm

Soooo... we're just putting any old thing up on APOD now?

sort of a spectacular fall from grace after yesterday's incredible and inspirational photograph

apodman · Post by **apodman** » Sat May 31, 2008 9:04 pm

More SUN ART:

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q ... 1&ie=UTF-8

apodman · Post by **apodman** » Sat May 31, 2008 9:11 pm

... or maybe just

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=holding+the+sun

(the longer url above might contain something specific to my browser that yours might not digest)

infoguy · Post by **infoguy** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 5:34 pm

A little clarification please. When they say "Ten Earths could easily fit in the "claw" of this seemingly solar monster." Are they talking about the entire lower half of the figure 8, or just the little, thin part to the right of the lower half, that points back toward the sun? I imagine it is the little thin part, but wouldn't mind getting another opinion.

Qev · Post by **Qev** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 6:01 pm

Ten Earth-diameters just about crosses the width of the hook-shape of the prominence in that image. If you view the full-scale image, Earth would be just a hair under seven pixels in diameter (the Sun is 109 times larger in diameter than the Earth).

apodman · Post by **apodman** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 8:40 pm

The claw that can hold 10 Earths refers to the "Twisted Solar Eruptive Prominence" (APOD 01 June 2008), not to APOD 31 May 2008. It should have been a new topic.

nafpie · Post by **nafpie** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 10:24 am

MrBill wrote:An obvious mistake on this page. This pic could not have been done in 1/6 of a second. Looks closer to 20 or 30 minutes.

Reading the caption may help:

During the 1/6 second long exposure he smoothly changed the focal length while simultaneously rotating the camera...

With other words: 1/6 second is correct. Thank you EXIF.

Stefan

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A View to the Sunset (APOD 31 May 2008)

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