DIY Astronomer captures amazing images of the Sun!

gurusan · 16 Dec 2009 at 09:12

Well done

4T5 · 16 Dec 2009 at 09:13

This gets a Big Holy ******** **** Batman from me. Epic pics of My Planet. :cool:

Cosimo · 16 Dec 2009 at 09:16

Great pictures, solar images are always fascinating.

dekez · 16 Dec 2009 at 09:25

Cool pics, I remember making a massive pinhole camera using the cardboard tube from a roll of carpet for a uni project to look for sun spots. Nothing like these imagines though!

Very impressive.

deuse · 16 Dec 2009 at 09:28

Those pictures are amazing.

Bleek · 16 Dec 2009 at 09:59

simulatorman said:
Great pictures, solar images are always fascinating.

Aren't they just; fascinating stuff.

Nick1881 · 16 Dec 2009 at 10:17

Amazing pics

Superewza said:
Nice.

Remember kids, Telescope + Sun = Head on fire.

Thanks for the lols

Ciphon · 14 Jan 2010 at 23:24

Very cool! I'd be scared to look in the telescope aimed at the sun for the first time... Incase something went wrong and I end up loosing an eye!

twist3d0n3 · 14 Jan 2010 at 23:38

YOWZERS

those are some beautiful pics!

*need to get into astronomy*

Von Smallhausen · 15 Jan 2010 at 00:30

Awesome.

If we could just master that fusion energy production from Hyrogen to Helium on a smaller scale, we would have clean power for evermore.

On a trivia note, our nearest star is 4.3 light years from the Sun. Scaled down that means if our Sun was the size of a grain of sand and our nearest star Proxima Centauri were the same size, they would be 5 miles apart.

Vonhelmet · 15 Jan 2010 at 00:33

Von Smallhausen said:
On a trivia note, our nearest star is 4.3 light years from the Sun. Scaled down that means if our Sun was the size of a grain of sand and our nearest star Proxima Centauri were the same size, they would be 5 miles apart.

Universe is big, yo.

SexyGreyFox · 15 Jan 2010 at 00:33

malc30 said:
Epic pics of My Planet.

Err, your Sun

Von Smallhausen · 15 Jan 2010 at 00:51

There was a thread recently which showed stars in comparison to others. Our Sun was tiny.

Sinny · 15 Jan 2010 at 00:59

vonhelmet said:
Universe is big, yo.

Our Galaxy is big, universe is bigger

.

hmm maybe infinite maybe too smaller word.

ghop · 15 Jan 2010 at 01:32

That's amazing considering what he took them with!!!

Flibster · 15 Jan 2010 at 01:38

vonhelmet said:
Universe is big, yo.

Certainly is... According to The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

"Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. I mean you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space, LISTEN!" and so on...

Pestilence · 15 Jan 2010 at 02:14

I don't know why, but looking at those type of images really makes me want to be fired from a cannon and propelled right into the surface of the Sun, screaming with glory.

What a way to go.

ghop · 15 Jan 2010 at 02:20

Pestilence said:
I don't know why, but looking at those type of images really makes me want to be fired from a cannon and propelled right into the surface of the Sun, screaming with glory.

What a way to go.

You'd probably be ash before you even got anywhere near it

The sheer power of the sun is uncomprehendible!

Pestilence · 15 Jan 2010 at 02:23

ghop said:
You'd probably be ash before you even got anywhere near it The sheer power of the sun is uncomprehendible!

I'll take it however I can get it!

MikeHunt79 · 15 Jan 2010 at 02:28

Nice pics, extra points for using DIY gear :cool:

Remember, amateurs built the ark, and professionals built the titanic!