Look to the sky

jeffcat

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Don't forget that today the 9th of May is the Transit of Mercury across the sun. You need the old welding goggles like for electric welding type and you will most likely need field glasses or telescope. You must use heavy filters so you don't fry your eye balls!!!!! It will only be about the size of the period at the end of a sentence . I video tapped the transit of venus back seven or eight years ago. NEET! Look at the left side of the sun aroud 7:15 AM Eastern Daylight Savings. It will be visable for over SEVEN hours as it goes from the middle left down to about the five o'clock on the sun surface. Look at the illustration for a reference. It will look like a very small sun spot. Take a look if you can. The next one is November 11, 2019.
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Your picture is good enough --- puts in perspective the difference in size between the sun and Mercury-- and the sun is farther away.
 
Once my grandaughter had to make a solar system . I wanted to make it to scale until I found that some planets would be basketball size ,some sized as the head of a pin and some 200 feet in diameter. There are no scale solar models.
 
AWWWWW crud!!! It was cloudy the whole day where I live. Have to wait two years for the next time.
 
Are you sure you're not remembering the relative size of the orbits of the planets on the same scale as the diameters? I just looked it up on several online sites, and found that the diameter of the sun is 285 times the diameter of Mercury. (Pluto is just under half the diameter of Mercury, but it lost its planet status, so I won't include it.) If you used something 1/16" in diameter to represent Mercury, the sun would be 17.8125" in diameter. But the distance from the sun is a different matter. If you used something 10" in diameter to represent the sun, then by the same scale, Neptune would be just over half a mile away.

Stan
 

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