Sun Ruler

[PeterM]

This popped up on CN recently so with a few cloudy days ahead I thought I would give it a go. I seem to have it working now with GIMP. https://solarchatforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=29125

I applied it to one of my images from last week and it gives you an idea of size/scale of Active Regions/Sunspots/Proms compared to the Earth and Jupiter. That big prom is about 35000Km high and the Sunspot in AR2786 would easily swallow the Earth!

The 2nd image is of the actual downloadable pdf ruler template (I had a friend convert it from French - thanks Pat!) that you can import to GIMP and Photoshop as a layer.

If you just want the pdf (its 330kb) I can send it to you, just PM me.

Hope this is useful.

[Anth10 (Anthony M)]

Peter,
Thanks for this- quite mind boggling to imagine a single solar flare could be greater in size compared to our earth- just amazing. The giant orb is grand!
Very interesting.

Cheers
Anth

[Merlin66 (Ken)]

Peter,
I’ve had this around for a while (I had to do the French translation) I thought it had already been uploaded......
Quite neat and handy.

[PeterM]

Originally Posted by Merlin66

Peter,
I’ve had this around for a while (I had to do the French translation) I thought it had already been uploaded......
Quite neat and handy.

Thanks Ken, sorry I hadn't seen it before. Handy to revisit.

[Eris (Gerard)]

Hi Peter, thanks for posting this interesting info. You may have offset my developing paranoia in not being able to find my old slide rule to help me calculate accurate measurements and distances of objects on the Sun.

[N1 (Mirko)]

Was expecting to see a pic of a huge new sunspot but this is just as good!