Elephant spotted on the edge of the sun

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

This afternoon I snapped this with the PST. I think it looks like an elephant but I don't think its a real one.

Captain Chaos

[OXO]

Lovely Photo CC trunk an all :whip2: :whip2:

[Astroman]

Great shot. I'll do some checking to see if it's a "real" elephant. Nope, not real. Sure does resemble one though. 8)

[GordonCopestake]

It DOES look like an ephalump! blumming big one though!! A few thousand miles high hehe

[geppetto]

How spooky :shock: 8)

[OXO]

Matbe we should stay away from the Mushroom thread :shock:

[Astroman]

AM guesses just under 100,000 km high. (98,500 km or so.)

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

That'd be the African variety then, they're bigger than the indian variety.

Captain Chaos

[Greg]

Nice pic CC...

Looks more like a scarecrow bending over to me..

There again I had a troubled youth..

[Astroman]

Oh yes, obviously African. The ears alone are a dead give away.

[SteelRat]

It's a big un. You sure that's the sun or is it the back of a giant turtle. Think you may be missing three more elephants there

[Astroman]

Great point, SteelRat! roflmao

[SteelRat]

Only ever seen em by Kirby... never thought I'd see one caught on camera (-:

[CELESCOPE]

nice one CC a rear shot mate

Rog

[Kain]

With the slanting back like that, looks more like an unwooly mamoth to me

Kain

[Adrian Condon]

Great shot, the flare seems to be either pretty permament, as I think it is about at the same place on the Sun as on the shots I took of the Eclipse in March. Incidentally, we could calculate the distance it goes out from the Sun, if you have a complete picture of the sun with a flare on it. For starters, the Sun is 864,900 miles at it's equator, so measure the size of the flare in mm, measure the diameter of the Sun in mm, divide the smaller figure into the bigger figure, this will give you the ratio of the flare to the diameter, now divide 864,900 by the answer and you should have the length of the flare. Good Luck!

Of course, the flare is really a Prominence, which as we all know is a dense cloud of gas, suspended above the Sun by magnetic fields hence the curls. There are smaller jets of gas called Spicules which are very short lived and are approximately 6,000 miles long.

We only see the flares along the edge of the Sun, but they must be occuring all over the place.

Hope to see more of your shots.

Cheers Adrian

[FLO]

Thats a seriously big elaphant!

Nice one CC 8)

[Adrian Condon]

Just to be pedantic, I have calculated the size of the flare to be in the region of 32,000 miles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Have you any more pics?

Cheers

Adrian :sunny:

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

I'll have more pictures when these clouds go away.

Captain Chaos

[lunator]

CC

see if can get the rest of the herd when the clouds finally part

Gret pic

Cheers

Ian

[Liz]

You should sell that to "The Sport" they would love that!

If you could find Elvis on there with your next shot that would be even better!!

Great picture

[SteelRat]

Even if Elvis didn't show up, they could print it with the pic of the Wellington bomber crash landed on the moon that they printed back in the day - you know, the one that Hitler flew there in?

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Yeah, but somebody stole the bomber didn't they?

guffaw guffaw

Captain Chaos

[SteelRat]

'tis probly sat in Hanger 15... I hate conspiracy theories:laugh:

[The Warthog]

An elephant on the Sun? Tusk, tusk.