Not only could the earth easily fit inside the prominence, but it looks like the Earth / Moon system could fit inside, at the distance they are apart: 250,000 miles vs. the Sun's diameter of 865,000 miles.
yellowlevel@verizon.net wrote:
Not only could the earth easily fit inside the prominence,
but it looks like the Earth / Moon system could fit inside,
at the distance they are apart: 250,000 miles
vs. the Sun's diameter of 865,000 miles.
orin stepanek wrote:
Click to play embedded YouTube video.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045920/ wrote:
<<John Putnam is a writer and an amateur stargazer with a new home out in the beautiful Arizona desert, which he enjoys with Ellen Fields, his girlfriend and a local schoolteacher. John is not trusted by the people of the small town near where he lives, certainly not by Sheriff Matt Warren, who feels protective of Ellen, and perhaps something more. One night, John and Ellen see a meteor crash in the desert. John drags his friend, Pete, out of bed to take him over to the crash site in his helicopter. Once there, John climbs down into the crater. Unfortunately, he does so alone, as Pete and Ellen wait for him. John is the only one who sees the spaceship before a landslide covers it. And John is the only one who catches a glimpse of the hideous thing inside. At first John's story seems mad, until some of the townsfolk begin acting strange - as if they aren't really who they seem to be.>>
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[last lines]
Sheriff Matt Warren: [three-shot, characters gazing toward sky into which meteor-spaceship has rocketed] Well, they've gone.
Ellen Fields: For good, John?
John Putnam: No. Just for now. It wasn't the right time for us to meet. But there'll be other nights, other stars for us to watch. They'll be back.
Re: APOD: It Came from the Sun (2010 Oct 18)
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 2:33 pm
by bugwriter
Just left of center there appears to be a verticle line on the surface of the sun. It doesn't seem that that could be natural, so I'm asking, is that just an artifact of the photo, or is it actually on the sun? If it is really there, what causes something like that?
Re: APOD: It Came from the Sun (2010 Oct 18)
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 2:37 pm
by rstevenson
I can see horizontal lines as well. Looks like it's been stitched together from smaller images, which is often found in astro images of various kinds.
This ain't so bad either, although it is in French!
Ann
Re: APOD: It Came from the Sun (2010 Oct 18)
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 3:59 pm
by Dana K
Just curious...there seems to be a straight line down the sun to the left of center of this photo...what on Earth (or, what on the Sun) can cause that?????
Re: APOD: It Came from the Sun (2010 Oct 18)
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 4:21 pm
by bystander
Dana K wrote:Just curious...there seems to be a straight line down the sun to the left of center of this photo...what on Earth (or, what on the Sun) can cause that?????
rstevenson wrote:I can see horizontal lines as well. Looks like it's been stitched together from smaller images, which is often found in astro images of various kinds.
Re: APOD: It Came from the Sun (2010 Oct 18)
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 4:39 pm
by mexhunter
bystander wrote:
Dana K wrote:Just curious...there seems to be a straight line down the sun to the left of center of this photo...what on Earth (or, what on the Sun) can cause that?????
rstevenson wrote:I can see horizontal lines as well. Looks like it's been stitched together from smaller images, which is often found in astro images of various kinds.
It is surely not very happily sewing mosaic.
This is the original picture:
More interestingly, it appears to me that there is a curved band more-or-less between the two brighter patches, where the texture of the surface seems different - the cell size of the dark and light pattern is larger and the edges less distinct. If this is not an artifact of the picture taking process, could this be a surface manifestation of currents farther down in the sun's atmosphere, akin to the jet stream or some kind of vertical thermal current?
Re: APOD: It Came from the Sun (2010 Oct 18)
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 5:15 pm
by rstevenson
rstevenson wrote:I can see horizontal lines as well. Looks like it's been stitched together from smaller images, which is often found in astro images of various kinds.
César wrote:It is surely not very happily sewing mosaic.
César
Sorry César, I didn't mean to suggest you did anything inappropriate. But I can clearly see several horizontal straight lines and at least two long straight vertical lines. Something must have happened during processing to make those lines. Either that or we need to take a real close look at the sun.
Rob
Re: APOD: It Came from the Sun (2010 Oct 18)
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 10:00 pm
by mexhunter
Hi Rob:
Well I still believe and I think that between frame and frame spent some considerable time and changed the stricture, so that sewing could not match the frames. It may also be errors CCD line sensor, or as you say, a processing problem.
Anyway, that does not diminish at all the visual information so powerful that it brings.
Greetings
César
It Came from the Sun
