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Originally Posted by Imme
I'm not a solar person at all but would love to know what the relative size of this flare is. How far out from the surface of the sun would that reach?????
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The field of view across this frame is about 400,000 kilometres. So the width of the prom is about 180,000 kms across and about 55,000 kms high. The diameter of the Earth is 12,742 kms. So that works out to about 4 earths in height and 14 earth's in width across the prom..
Ted