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Stunning Sun Picture (67 Kb), never seen 0808
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post Sep 18 2005, 12:45 PM
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On Sept. 17th, Didier Favre of L.A. was photographing sunspot 0808 (Ex 0798) when a passing bird tried to steal the show. "Catch the sunspot if you can!" says Favre.

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post Sep 19 2005, 06:14 AM
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Sort of thing seems to happen with surprising frequency....
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post Dec 23 2005, 02:30 PM
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Another strange object was recently captured moving across the face of Sol:

http://www.nso.edu/press/holiday05/ISOON_Santa.jpg

Happy Winter Solstice!


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post Dec 23 2005, 02:42 PM
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QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Dec 23 2005, 03:30 PM)
Another strange object was recently captured moving across the face of Sol:

http://www.nso.edu/press/holiday05/ISOON_Santa.jpg
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Nonsense, that's an obvious montage!

I mean: c'mon, everybody knows he only flies at nighttime! biggrin.gif


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post Dec 23 2005, 02:47 PM
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QUOTE (ugordan @ Dec 23 2005, 09:42 AM)
Nonsense, that's an obvious montage!

I mean: c'mon, everybody knows he only flies at nighttime!  biggrin.gif
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It was taken from orbit as he was arcing over the North Pole.

Either that or it's one heck of an unusual sunspot.


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and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance.
I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard,
and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does
not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is
indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have
no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft."

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post Dec 23 2005, 04:01 PM
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Santa Claus has magical powers. I hear he can cure cancer.
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post Dec 23 2005, 07:55 PM
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QUOTE (ugordan @ Dec 23 2005, 05:42 PM)
Nonsense, that's an obvious montage!

I mean: c'mon, everybody knows he only flies at nighttime!  biggrin.gif
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You mean he doesn't visit Antarctica?


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post Dec 23 2005, 09:10 PM
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QUOTE (deglr6328 @ Sep 19 2005, 06:14 AM)
Sort of thing seems to happen with surprising frequency....
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I bought myself a pair of solar binoculars of the transit of Venus, and as I was looking at it, a 747 flew right across the disc of the sun. It would have made a fantastic photo....

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post Dec 23 2005, 11:27 PM
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QUOTE (chris @ Dec 23 2005, 01:10 PM)
a 747 flew right across the disc of the sun. It would have made a fantastic photo....
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You mean like this? (scroll down to see the image) smile.gif


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post Dec 24 2005, 01:55 AM
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QUOTE (lyford @ Dec 23 2005, 11:27 PM)
You mean like this? (scroll down to see the image) smile.gif
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Exactly, except it was just like this one
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