6/29/2003: Sun's surface

Undertoad · 06-29-2003, 11:31 AM

Turns out this is a shot from a Swedish telescope located in the Canary Islands and... well I can't really rewrite the official information, so:

<i>...allows imaging of objects less than 100-km across on the Sun's surface. When pointed toward the Sun's edge, surface objects now begin to block each other, indicating true three-dimensional information. Close inspection of the image reveals much vertical information, including spectacular light-bridges rising nearly 500-km above the floor of sunspots near the top of the image. Also visible in the above false-color image are hundreds of bubbling granules, each about 1000-km across, and small bright regions known as faculas.</i>

Or maybe I just took a picture of some bubbling brown sugar and this is a grand fake?

wolf · 06-29-2003, 12:31 PM

Dunno. I thought it was maybe a close up shot of an orange ...

Stonan · 06-29-2003, 03:41 PM

APOD shot from June24. A nice acompanyment to the APOD shot from 2002 November 14. Too bad there isn't a ratio included to understand the scope of the shot but a cool backdrop none the less...

xoxoxoBruce · 06-29-2003, 05:46 PM

I saw something like that growing on an old wino.

Torrere · 06-29-2003, 08:47 PM

At first glance, I thought it was pores.

richlevy · 06-30-2003, 08:36 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by wolf
Dunno. I thought it was maybe a close up shot of an orange ...

You know, I just remembered an episode of the old (1970) TV series UFO where a spy satellite they send to observe the aliens malfunctions and they get pictures without any information on magnification or distance. The commander asks why they can't use any of it if they still get pictures and someone sets up a demostration by taking closeups of a person without telling him what the subject was. They started with an extreme closeup and pulled back in stages until he could discern the subject. It was a neat scene.

wolf · 07-01-2003, 01:56 AM

Too cool! Somebody else remembers that! (she says as she hums the theme song) Now I'm going to have to try to find out if there's a DVD release. I know there were videos, but I didn't manage to score any of them. (I have the ViewMaster reels, though.

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xoxoxoBruce · 07-07-2003, 05:58 PM

Here's another.

06-29-2003, 11:31 AM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	6/29/2003: Sun's surface Turns out this is a shot from a Swedish telescope located in the Canary Islands and... well I can't really rewrite the official information, so: <i>...allows imaging of objects less than 100-km across on the Sun's surface. When pointed toward the Sun's edge, surface objects now begin to block each other, indicating true three-dimensional information. Close inspection of the image reveals much vertical information, including spectacular light-bridges rising nearly 500-km above the floor of sunspots near the top of the image. Also visible in the above false-color image are hundreds of bubbling granules, each about 1000-km across, and small bright regions known as faculas.</i> Or maybe I just took a picture of some bubbling brown sugar and this is a grand fake?

06-29-2003, 03:41 PM	#3
Stonan Do-er of Deeds Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Cloverdale, British Columbia, Canada, Earth, Universe #42 Posts: 41	APOD shot from June24. A nice acompanyment to the APOD shot from 2002 November 14. Too bad there isn't a ratio included to understand the scope of the shot but a cool backdrop none the less... __________________ Jesus got it wrong by one letter: The Geek shall inherit the earth...

06-29-2003, 05:46 PM	#4
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	I saw something like that growing on an old wino. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

07-01-2003, 01:56 AM	#7
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Too cool! Somebody else remembers that! (she says as she hums the theme song) Now I'm going to have to try to find out if there's a DVD release. I know there were videos, but I didn't manage to score any of them. (I have the ViewMaster reels, though. ) __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

07-07-2003, 05:58 PM	#8
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Here's another. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump. Last edited by xoxoxoBruce; 04-07-2007 at 06:08 PM.

06-29-2003, 12:31 PM	#2
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Dunno. I thought it was maybe a close up shot of an orange ...

06-29-2003, 08:47 PM	#5
Torrere a real smartass Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Kirkland, WA Posts: 1,121	At first glance, I thought it was pores.

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