Thanks for the answer. Guess I wasn’t quite so confused after all!

Questions and comments, as always, and I’ve actually got the time to post!

If light at 171, 195 and 284 Angstroms best shows temps around 1M, 1.5M & 2M (Kelvin?), respectively (per image #11), why does the wavelength of 304 (presumably Angstroms, since it mentions UV light) in image #19 show gasses at 60K degrees? Since this apparent (to me, anyway) discrepancy doesn’t seem to be a unit issue (degrees C or F instead of Kelvin (not degrees ), is it because we’re looking at ionized Helium (instead of the presumed Hydrogen)?

The CME blowing away the comet’s tail is so fascinating that I paused to watch for a few minutes before continuing. Of course, it took me a while to actually get through the entire page.

Anyone know why the seismic waves in image #8 accelerate?

Thank you for the Ben Bova article link, Gary 7!

BTW, I prefer Rankin to Kelvin. Degrees Rankin – g^2

Uncle!

But I would assume that the moon is far too light, and the distances far too small, for any gravitational lensing to occur.

Its probably just an illusion. I cannot detect it if I cover up the moon’s path with a piece of paper, but maybe it is just too small to detect with the eye on such a small video.

I now have a nice red welt on my forehead from me smacking myself there.

The above picture/movie was taken by the STEREO B spacecraft on 25-Feb-2007; six days later, there was a Full Moon and a total lunar eclipse. Therefore, the Moon was, at the time the picture/movie was taken, just past First Quarter and was proceeding in its orbit from left to right, as seen from behind the Earth looking down from north.

Click on my name for the link to the Astronomy Picture Of the Day feature.

So there, kuhnigget.

Note to self: Refresh the bloody page before submitting a comment.

Ahhh!!! Another person said degrees Kelvin!

But in the video, the moon transits the sun from left to right, opposite to the motion I would expect from Earth’s view. So what gives? If the STEREO spacecraft orbits the sun synchronously with Earth, the apparent left-to-right movement of the moon can’t be due to movement of the spacecraft relative to Earth. Is the moon on the far side of Earth (away from the sun) during this transit? That would explain the left-to-right movement relative to Earth, but it would also make the moon closer to the spacecraft, which would make its image larger, not smaller. It could be that the spacecraft is still farther from the moon in this position than the moon is from Earth, and that a moon-sun transit would create a smaller image of the moon if the moon were on the near side of Earth.

However, I’m not at all confident that I got the geometry right. Anyone else know?

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