Thanks to reader Mike McMillan for pointing this awesome HiDef video out. It is the best I’ve seen.
And…
Super high resolution prints of the SDO imagery are available here, suitable for framing.
Thanks to reader Mike McMillan for pointing this awesome HiDef video out. It is the best I’ve seen.
And…
Super high resolution prints of the SDO imagery are available here, suitable for framing.
Scott Scarborough said on June 6, 2012 at 9:56 am:
Haven’t you heard of the Music of the Spheres before?
Its not Photoshop magic, its not after burn in the sensor, and its not refraction. Its how telescopes gather light. SHEESH.
gosh, how tiny Venus is… And you say Earth is about the same size? And the Sun is a “yellow dwarf”, i.e. small compared with other stars?
I cannot begin to imagine just how tiny we are.
It’s kind of like in the old B&W boxing broadcasts, that you could see the ring’s ropes through their bodies as if the boxers were transparent. “Its how telescopes gather light. SHEESH.” Thanks DesertYote!
Seeming transparency of Venus is instrumental artefact from SDO sensors.
Explained here:
I’m puzzled because when I looked at the transit around 6.30pm ET Venus was visible just away from the edge of the sun at the top right hand (2 o’clock position approx) yet all the videos show Venus entering at the top left hand (around 10 o;clock). Why is that?
Too bad they had to add the global warming speculation near the end.
barrie sellers asked: when I looked at the transit around 6.30pm ET Venus was visible … at the top right hand (2 o’clock position approx) yet all the videos show Venus entering at the top left hand (around 10 o;clock). Why is that?
A lens inverts an image. I expect you were looking through a lens of some kind, and the telescopes not — or vice versa.
What is that music with the video? Who does it? What is the title? It’s so awesome, hypnotic… I want to get a copy and put it in my itunes. Anybody know the song/author?
I too thought I saw it at the 2:00 position at around 7:00 Central time. I was not using a lens, just multiple layers of tinted plastic.
The WUWT Solar Images & Data Page has some good shots of Venus zipping across the various wavelength images. Won’t be there for long.
I knew WUWT would find a good image of something of high scientific interest like this. I find it intriguing that a reader found an even better one than the lead article. We are a fabulous group here.
The size of Venus, in comparison to what is actually a smallish, unregarded, yellow star in the unfashionable end of the Western Arm of the Galaxy, is further confirmation of the fundamental lesson learned from the Total Perspective Vortex.
@ur momisugly Scott Scarborough
Look how the floor of heaven
Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold.
There’s not the smallest orb which thou behold’st,
But in his motion like an angel sings,
Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins:
(Merchant of Venice, Act V Scene 1)
Hey, the sun’s pretty big.
Cute! But I don’t get why it’s “Venice”. Not a gondola in sight.
In the movie at about the 1:20 and 2:30 marks (the dark red versions) Venus shows bright sparks and sparkles. Lightning?
Speaking of the Galaxy and Vortices and such, NASA reports that in 4bn yrs the Milky Way will merge with Andromeda. Below is a link to images of what it will look like during the 2 bn yrs or so it will take to complete the process, viewed from Planet Earth. Wish I could hang around to watch!
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/654291main_p1220bk.jpg
Pretty big compared with …?
Fantastic video. The portions where the filters show the ‘red’ sun are most impressive.
The sun appears to be a very hot ball of intense heat. Of course that intense heat has nothing to do with the earth’s cooling and heating. That’s strictly CO2 /s
“the Milky Way will merge with Andromeda.”
Galaxies collide! We’re doomed!
Couldn’t they have processed-out those highly uncosmic motion-jerks?
What looked so splendid in my telescope eyepiece has been reduced to botched time-lapses.
Maybe in 105 years future video practiciners will have solved the seemingly vexing problem of uniform interframe intervals, the fine art of which seems to be lost to these particular solar videographers.
It’s your system, and its inadequate buffering capacity. The feed is smooth.
My prints arrived today! All I can say is that they are simply AWESOME! The print quality is amazing – I can’t wait to get them framed.
Thanks, Anthony!