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Sunset over Southern Indiana
March 13, 2013 at 11:05 am
![[Image: _MG_8960a_zps7dc68479.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=i132.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fq9%2Fjryates%2F_MG_8960a_zps7dc68479.jpg)
Taken yesterday evening using a solar filter on my telescope. Note the sunspots. The focus was softer than I would have liked. The trees were about a mile away on top of a hill.
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RE: Sunset over Southern Indiana
March 13, 2013 at 11:36 am
Breathtaking!
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RE: Sunset over Southern Indiana
March 13, 2013 at 12:18 pm
I thought the sunspots were birds 
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RE: Sunset over Southern Indiana
March 14, 2013 at 1:39 am
Thanks, Folks. When I took that photo, I was actually out to get a telescopic photo of comet Panstarrs, but it didn't work out. I should have much better luck with comet Elon when it comes around later in the year.
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RE: Sunset over Southern Indiana
March 14, 2013 at 4:23 am
Not having much luck with Panstarrs here either orogenicman.... clouds rolling in before sunset...typical!
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RE: Sunset over Southern Indiana
March 14, 2013 at 1:40 pm
(March 14, 2013 at 4:23 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: Not having much luck with Panstarrs here either orogenicman.... clouds rolling in before sunset...typical!
You live down under, right? Well, to be honest, you won't have any luck where you live since the comet is now viewable only from the northern hemisphere. Sorry.
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RE: Sunset over Southern Indiana
March 14, 2013 at 1:44 pm
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The sun looks pretty intimidating when you know how big it is. I mean when it looks clear like that.
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RE: Sunset over Southern Indiana
March 14, 2013 at 8:46 pm
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Indeed:
![[Image: size_of_earth_3.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.rayfowler.org%2Fblog%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsize_of_earth_3.jpg)
The size of the sunspots in my image are about the size of Neptune.
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
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