a speck in the sun

[Jerry_111]

or is it? (click on image)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=407636&in_page_id=1770

 

[Hectic Glenn]

Haha thats amazing, a shuttle and the ISS in comparison size, even with thousands of miles between, the proportion still dwarfs it massively. Mind blowing really.

 

[Jerry_111]

Keep in mind that the sun is still 90 MILLION miles away from the telescope that took this picture...

 

[Raziaar]

Why does the sun look like it was created by a terrible 3d graphics artist?

 

[mastag]

Why does the sun look like it was created by a terrible 3d graphics artist?

read my mind.

 

[function9]

Because they can't bid the job as the artist that did the moon landing for them is still under contract. Not sure how he got the government to sign a 40 yr contract with him back in 1969.

 

[Vegeta897]

But really, there is no way the sun looks like that. Shading around the edge like that? Wtf?

 

[Naudian]

lol are you joking? I think you are, as for the other MORON IDIOT FACES...

Obviously he's got some special fitlers or something to see the silhouette at all...so the sun isn't gonna look normal.

 

[function9]

But really, there is no way the sun looks like that. Shading around the edge like that? Wtf?

Well that is how it does look given the guy's equipment and settings. Here is the guy's site:
http://www.astrosurf.com/legault/

I'm curious though, how should it look?

 

[Vegeta897]

But why is it darker on the edges? I can understand the clearly un-natural plain yellow color, but that darkness seems odd.

 

[AKIRA]

umm i think that's a sunspot..

EDIT:

wait nvm i enlarged the picture lol

 

[hungryduck]

woah, thats really cool

 

[tehsolace]

there is no sun... it was also created in hollywood while they faked the moon landing.

 

[theotherguy]

But why is it darker on the edges? I can understand the clearly un-natural plain yellow color, but that darkness seems odd.

The sun's roundness creates differences in the amount of light received. The filters that the guy used filtered out indirect light and only took direct light. So, the surface of the sun directley perpindicular to the camera appears the brightest, and as the angle from the surcace grows more and more at an angle, less direct light is picked up by the camera, so it appears darker.

 

[The Brick]

Actually, it's a 27 mile wide disk that spins in a cirle. Directly under it, the sun draws a circle that we know as the equator. Like this.

 

[tehsolace]

Actually, it's a 27 mile wide disk that spins in a cirle. Directly under it, the sun draws a circle that we know as the equator. Like this.

rofl i knew it.

flat earth society ftw!

 

[Naudian]

That's awesome lol

 

[Raziaar]

Seems plausible to me. I already knew that the sun was way too small than people actually believed.

And going by the fact that everything in the universe revolves around us... it's obvious.

 

[A2597]

it was artificially colored, which is part of the problem.

The original was a black and white photo

 

[CyberPitz]

That's just amasing. I love looking at space stuff, it's so....for lack of a better word, cool.

 

[Tyguy]

That's just amasing. I love looking at space stuff, it's so....for lack of a better word, cool.

yet depressing....so many galaxies....

 

[Parrot of doom]

The sun's roundness creates differences in the amount of light received. The filters that the guy used filtered out indirect light and only took direct light. So, the surface of the sun directley perpindicular to the camera appears the brightest, and as the angle from the surcace grows more and more at an angle, less direct light is picked up by the camera, so it appears darker.

Sounds very likely. Probably just a simple polarising filter, you can buy them from any decent photographic shop. They don't cost a lot. Very useful for eliminating reflections when taking pictures of reflective surfaces.