Sun to Earth scale for pictures: Is this right?
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Sun to Earth scale for pictures: Is this right?
I'm not even to sure what to search for on that, so I tried something. I don't know if this is right, so that's why I ask.
First I brought up my pics of the Sun. I then overlaid a grid on the pic, and measured with the select tool how many pixels it was across the exact center from one edge of the disc to the other. I had to check that a few times, as the result in pixels was the exact same as my year of birth, 1965. Odd that, but easy to remember
I did a search on converting pixels to inches, and came across this site, Ninjaunits.com. Neat. It needed the DPI of my monitor (obviously) which was 75. I then put in the pixels, and the result in inches was 26.2.
I then did a search on sun scaled diameter, and ended up on this site, Exploratorium.edu. Fun site, actually. You can put in the dimensions for making a scale solar system, so I put in 26.2 inches for the Sun, and in comparison the Earth was 0.2398 inches.
Back to Ninjaunits, where I was informed that 0.24 inches was 18 pixels. Ok, so I'm off by 0.0002 inches...
I then drew a circle in my image 18 pixels across, and colored it pale blue
So that's my question here; is my logic on this right or am I off base on this?
This is the image I ended up with, my "earth" is to the bottom right. I'd appreciate any and all advice
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Re: Sun to Earth scale for pictures: Is this right?
Leave it to me to overthink this one... Whenever it comes to math I always seem to take the hard route to my answer. Could've saved myself a lot of typing toonotFritzArgelander wrote: ↑Thu May 13, 2021 2:02 am Your logic is fine. But there is an easier way. The Sun's radius is about 109 times Earth's. So the number of pixels in the Sun diameter, 1965/109=18 the number of pixels in Earth's diameter.
Thanks for the verification nFA!
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https://thesolarexplorer.net/index.php/ ... olar-ruler
Look about half-way down this link for the "La Règle Solaire (pdf 88 Ko)" link.
https://sites.google.com/site/astroblue ... ico-utiles
You can convert the PDF into a PNG and bring it in as a layer over your image. Resize to fit, voila!
It's really great because it gives you an idea of the height of the prominences too.
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I then downloaded a tif of the earth and resize it to 26 pixels and drag and drop
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Re: Sun to Earth scale for pictures: Is this right?
Another way is to search for "Solar Ruler" and you'll find a website that has a scaled solar image with the earth and I believe Jupiter to scale. You can layer that over your image and adjust the size.
Edit: I didn't realize this was from a post where I already mentioned that.
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Re: Sun to Earth scale for pictures: Is this right?
Yes I resurrected an older threadAstroBee wrote: ↑Sun Sep 26, 2021 11:05 pm Looks about right.
Another way is to search for "Solar Ruler" and you'll find a website that has a scaled solar image with the earth and I believe Jupiter to scale. You can layer that over your image and adjust the size.
Edit: I didn't realize this was from a post where I already mentioned that.
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