Sunday, November 12, 2006
Four planets gather
Mercury, Mars, Venus and Jupiter are huddled around the Sun at the moment, in a circle 15 degrees in diameter. Inspired by the Bad Astronomers example, I've uploaded the LASCO C3 video of this event to YouTube. YouTube has squashed the Video somewhat (and Sheesh, it take a long time for YouTube to process Videos).
The spikes through Jupiter and Venus are instrument artefacts. Mercury appears about 3/4's of the way through the video as it starts to show more of its bright side. To give you an idea of what you are seeing, consult the annotated image below.
Image Credit NASA/SOHO
You can check out the individual images themselves at the Near Realtime Image page, and the videos and video archives are here.
The spikes through Jupiter and Venus are instrument artefacts. Mercury appears about 3/4's of the way through the video as it starts to show more of its bright side. To give you an idea of what you are seeing, consult the annotated image below.
Image Credit NASA/SOHOYou can check out the individual images themselves at the Near Realtime Image page, and the videos and video archives are here.
# posted by Ian Musgrave @ 9:32 am 
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