APOD: Total Eclipse and Comets (2024 Apr 17)

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Re: APOD: Total Eclipse and Comets (2024 Apr 17)

Post by Fred the Cat » Thu Apr 18, 2024 7:03 pm

johnnydeep wrote: Thu Apr 18, 2024 6:06 pm
Fred the Cat wrote: Thu Apr 18, 2024 6:02 pm
johnnydeep wrote: Thu Apr 18, 2024 5:49 pm

Are you suggesting that the Corona might be markedly different in the portions of it that we can't currently study well (that is, those portions that extend in directions other than in the 2-D radial view we usually see during eclipses)?
Possibly? :|
Did you notice my edit of my post since your reply? (I'm never sure if that causes people to get a separate notice of a change or not.)

This was what I had added:
EDIT: come to think of it, we ARE currently viewing the Corona through sight lines that extend through almost all the Corona since the Moon is only blocking a very narrow 0.5° cone! Right?
I did see that. Studying solar activity near or far might be better from all angles possible. :thumb_up:
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