Let's Talk About the Sun

[merlin6666]

There is a scale model of our solar system in northern Maine. It is spread out over roughly 100 miles of roadway.

Maine solar system model, ayuh.

Nice, so the sun in this has a diameter of roughly 15m and Earth about 14cm, only 1.6 km away from the sun. In contrast the furthest planet Neptune is 54cm diameter and 51km away from sun.

 

[GAD]

The sun is very busy with sunspots today:



Handheld (!) 500mm f/4L w/1.4X TC for 700mm f/5.6. Taken at 1/6500th f/11 @ ISO 800 with the Baader filter.