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Le Soleil

Our star: a G2 V yellow dwarf, 4.5 billion years old.

Le Soleil, exposure not given
Le Soleil exposure not given · DwarfLab DWARF 3

It is 150 million kilometres away, and on its own it accounts for 99.8% of the mass of the solar system. Its surface is at about 5,500 degrees Celsius. It carries spots from 1,600 to 160,900 kilometres across, on a magnetic cycle of about eleven years. Photographing it is the exact opposite of everything else in this catalogue. It takes a solar filter made for the purpose. Without one, the sensor is destroyed in a few seconds, and the eye with it on an instrument with an eyepiece. And the exposure is counted in fractions of a second, never in hours.

Source: NASA, le Soleil, faits. A figure wrong? Report it.

exposure not logged 1 shot

0 towards 22h 12m · cumulative integration on this object

Temps d'intégration : the total exposure time, the sum of every exposure stacked on an object.

Designation
Soleil
Family
Star
Constellation
no fixed constellation
Shots taken
1
Cumulative integration
not logged
Instrument
DwarfLab DWARF 3

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0 towards 22h 12m · cumulative integration on this object

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