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A six month apart sunshine, Andrei Dumitriu

A six month apart sunshine

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging
A six month apart sunshine, Andrei Dumitriu

A six month apart sunshine

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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Here's a comparison of the Sun's disc when our darling Earth was closest and farthest from it. Basically speaking, a huge 5 mil km (3 mil mi) difference in distance. To be honest, I feel lucky to finish this project in the shortest possible time frame, and that is 6 months. Perihelion images were taken on 02 Jan 2021 and aphelion shot on 05 July 2021, all using the same camera and scope setup, only my outfit had to be different.

The beauty mark from the lower right is sunspot AR2835

And here are the numbers, for those savvy like myself:

Perihelion distance: approx 147 mil km ( 91 mil mi)

Aphelion distance: approx 152 mil km ( 94 mil mi)

Apparent size difference: 3.3%

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A six month apart sunshine, Andrei Dumitriu