These are the highest resolution images of the Sun ever taken
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Motherboard[^]:
Scientists have released the highest resolution observations of the Sun ever captured, which reveal our star’s surface in unprecedented detail.
What did they use for lighting?
And now I want some caramel corn
That is an interesting photo but I like this one better : APOD: 2018 August 20 - Active Prominences on a Quiet Sun[^]
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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You know I hate to burst people's balloons, but that ain't the Sun's surface.
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what's it the surface of then? Your face? ;P ;P
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That is an interesting photo but I like this one better : APOD: 2018 August 20 - Active Prominences on a Quiet Sun[^]
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
:thumbsup: That is gorgeous! (and much less like caramel popcorn)
TTFN - Kent
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You know I hate to burst people's balloons, but that ain't the Sun's surface.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
I think you are either an alien, or a politician. Both your and mine are statements without argumentation and proof, and can be dismissed as such. It is not just a waste of space, but a waste of time. I hate to burst your balloon, but you're not what you are posing to be.
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^] "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I think you are either an alien, or a politician. Both your and mine are statements without argumentation and proof, and can be dismissed as such. It is not just a waste of space, but a waste of time. I hate to burst your balloon, but you're not what you are posing to be.
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^] "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
Eddy Vluggen wrote:
Both your and mine are statements without argumentation and proof, and can be dismissed as such.
Um, no. The pictures are not of the surface of the Sun, just like photos of clouds are not pictures of the surface of the Earth.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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what's it the surface of then? Your face? ;P ;P
#SupportHeForShe Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote:
what's it the surface of then?
It's not the surface of anything. This really ain't rocket surgery. The photos are of the Sun's corona, not its surface.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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what's it the surface of then? Your face? ;P ;P
#SupportHeForShe Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
The Sun doesn't have a surface
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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote:
what's it the surface of then?
It's not the surface of anything. This really ain't rocket surgery. The photos are of the Sun's corona, not its surface.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Mark_Wallace wrote:
The photos are of the Sun's corona, not its surface.
Nope. The corona[^] is the whispy streamers of gas flying away from the sun; it's only visible when (like during a total eclipse) you completely block out the rest of the sun. The granulation[^] shown in those pictures is the top of the convective cells in the photosphere. The latter is the layer of the sun that transitions from opaque to transparent; and which is the functional black body surface equivalent that produces almost all of the light we can see.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
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Mark_Wallace wrote:
The photos are of the Sun's corona, not its surface.
Nope. The corona[^] is the whispy streamers of gas flying away from the sun; it's only visible when (like during a total eclipse) you completely block out the rest of the sun. The granulation[^] shown in those pictures is the top of the convective cells in the photosphere. The latter is the layer of the sun that transitions from opaque to transparent; and which is the functional black body surface equivalent that produces almost all of the light we can see.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
Debatable. If you're looking head-on at the Sun, the first light that reaches your eyes is from the corona, emitted from the "centres" of the C-cells, and the "black" surroundings are where the corona isn't. You can't consider the corona as an independent entity; it's just the brightest parts of the photosphere, so with filters set that high, it's all you see.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Motherboard[^]:
Scientists have released the highest resolution observations of the Sun ever captured, which reveal our star’s surface in unprecedented detail.
What did they use for lighting?
And now I want some caramel corn
I wonder how minute the aperture was. Or, does this question make sense for the type of camera they used?
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Motherboard[^]:
Scientists have released the highest resolution observations of the Sun ever captured, which reveal our star’s surface in unprecedented detail.
What did they use for lighting?
And now I want some caramel corn
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Debatable. If you're looking head-on at the Sun, the first light that reaches your eyes is from the corona, emitted from the "centres" of the C-cells, and the "black" surroundings are where the corona isn't. You can't consider the corona as an independent entity; it's just the brightest parts of the photosphere, so with filters set that high, it's all you see.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
The corona is 2 layers above the photosphere (the chromasphere is between the two); but is a zillion times dimmer. You can't see it and the rest of the sun a the same time and cameras (even really high end ones have less dynamic range than the human eye) can't take a picture of it and the rest of the sun at the same time. The images in question are of the photosphere (all the detail is from this level); lightly tinted by the chromasphere above.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
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The corona is 2 layers above the photosphere (the chromasphere is between the two); but is a zillion times dimmer. You can't see it and the rest of the sun a the same time and cameras (even really high end ones have less dynamic range than the human eye) can't take a picture of it and the rest of the sun at the same time. The images in question are of the photosphere (all the detail is from this level); lightly tinted by the chromasphere above.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
Dan Neely wrote:
The corona is 2 layers above the photosphere (the chromasphere is between the two); but is a zillion times dimmer
And it's several zillion times dimmer, by the time it reaches the Earth (the inverse-square law is a real thing, unlike a lot of the guff spoken by astronomers). Like I said, don't make the mistake of thinking that it's a separate thing from the photosphere; it is simply the particles of photosphere as they move further out, and the line of definition that people have pencilled in between the two is entirely arbitrary, based on how much the moon occludes during an eclipse (which itself is different, every time, sometimes by by thousands of miles -- that's a Hell of a thick pencil). Hot stuff comes out from the Sun. There ain't no lines of definition, that far out.
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