<div>I would need a bigger screen for that.</div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 7:15 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bandwraith@aol.com" target="_blank">bandwraith@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Alterrnatively, to get a sense of the actual relative<br>
difference in size between the sun and venus,<br>
you could imagine the sun being nine times the<br>
size of its image in the pictures of the transit.<br>
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</div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">Sent: Wed, Jun 6, 2012 10:51 am<br>
Subject: Re: Venus looks much bigger than it is<br>
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<br>
That's a great picture, and it is indeed the way<br>
the image appears from earth. The appearance<br>
is deceptive, however, because Venus is so<br>
much closer to us. If Venus were actually right<br>
on the sun's surface (besides being incinerated)<br>
the dot would have a diameter 1/3 the length in<br>
the image, and the area, i.e., its apparent size,<br>
would be 1/9 that of the image in the picture.<br>
<br>
Thanks<br>
<br>
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From: Jed Kelestron <<a href="mailto:jedkelestron@gmail.com">jedkelestron@gmail.com</a>><br>
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Sent: Wed, Jun 6, 2012 12:01 am<br>
Subject: Re: Venus looks much bigger than it is<br>
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<br>
Got it:<br>
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<a href="http://bit.ly/L1YZzs" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/L1YZzs</a><br>
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