May 15 2009

Really Cool Shuttle Pic

Published by at 9:20 am under All General Discussions

This is a great picture of the shuttle silhouetted against the Sun:

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6 responses so far

6 Responses to “Really Cool Shuttle Pic”

  1. pjo says:
    May 15, 2009 at 9:56 am

    Cool pictures!

  2. I R A Darth Aggie says:
    May 15, 2009 at 11:33 am

    Is it my fevered imagination, or are there no sunspots visible? or would they not be visible to an amateur photographer’s gear?

  3. WWS says:
    May 15, 2009 at 11:57 am

    There have been very few sunspots for a couple of years now, and no sign yet that any are going to be showing up anytime soon.

    The sun’s output is currently at the lowest level measured since modern record keeping began, and it seems to be stuck there.

    Check out Anthony Watt’s blog http://wattsupwiththat.com/ for some very good scientific discussion that won’t see anywhere else. Leif Svalgard’s guest post this morning on the 10.7 radio flux measurements was particularly good, and is the kind of hard science that you will never see discussed by any of the mainstream press outlets.

    I think you will enjoy researching the “maunder minimum,” which may be beginning to repeat.

    here’s a good link to start with:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunder_minimum

  4. WWS says:
    May 15, 2009 at 11:59 am

    while my other comment with a couple of links is awaiting moderation, let me just say that you are correct, there are no sunspots visible. Sunspots have been very rare for a couple of years now.

    The sun has gone cold, but officially no one is paying attention yet.

  5. Frogg says:
    May 15, 2009 at 1:25 pm

    Pics like this are beyond surreal.

  6. sjreidhead says:
    May 15, 2009 at 7:22 pm

    Cool!

    SJR
    The Pink Flamingo