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05-03-2011, 07:59 PM
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| | | pic of biggest star VY Canis Majoris
This hyperstar star was mentioned here last year - last night a got a pic via my scope [below] montaged with stepped sequence from Earth - VY Canis Majoris to show its enormous size  It's estimated a jet aircraft would take 1100 years to circumnavigate its globe - amazing 
The star is a very long way away and thus faint. It's currently a binocular object below brilliant Sirius, the Dog Star, low in the south after dusk   |
05-03-2011, 08:38 PM
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| | | Re: pic of biggest star VY Canis Majoris
Surely the relative sizes are wrong? Or have I misunderstood what you mean?
I'd have thought on that scale the Earth would be no bigger than a full stop, if even that. |
05-03-2011, 09:07 PM
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| | | Re: pic of biggest star VY Canis Majoris
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Originally Posted by glsammy  Surely the relative sizes are wrong? Or have I misunderstood what you mean? | Probably - look more closely at the figure where each object on the left is reduced to right via link lines in paired objects. - the earth is reduced to maybe an atom compared to disk for VY CMa over the whole sequence
Last edited by nytecam; 05-03-2011 at 09:13 PM.
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08-03-2011, 08:46 AM
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| | | Re: pic of biggest star VY Canis Majoris
VY Canis Major is so much bigger than that picture makes it out to be. I find that this scale is more accurate. 
Last edited by Dan Webber; 08-03-2011 at 08:51 AM.
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08-03-2011, 03:06 PM
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| | | Re: pic of biggest star VY Canis Majoris
Dan - mine is just as accurate [some just need more 'steps'  ] but I was featuring my pic of VY CMa and await forum competition
Ps: It's estimated the jetplane would circumnavigate earth in ~49hrs compare to 1100 years for VY CMa or if it replaced our sun all the planets almost to Saturn would be beneath its surface - so more scales there!
Last edited by nytecam; 08-03-2011 at 03:33 PM.
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