On Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 4:28:23 AM UTC, palsing wrote:
On Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at 11:23:06 AM UTC-8, Gerald Kelleher wrote:

Just discovered the Soho Lasco imaging and it is fascinating...

... and has been fascinating for the last 30 years!

You are just a little late to the party...

It is as much a celebration of satellite imaging as anything else, however, in much the same way as Galileo applied his unparalleled use of the telescope, he allowed that it was interpretation in the absence of magnification that makes it all worthwhile -

"But the telescope plainly shows us its horns [Venus] to be as bounded and distinct as those of the moon, and they are seen to belong to a very large circle, in a ratio almost forty times as great as the same disc when it is beyond the sun, toward the end of its morning appearances.

SAGR. Oh Nicholas Copernicus, what a pleasure it would have been for you to see this part of your system confirmed by so clear an experiment!

SALV. Yes, but how much less would his sublime intellect be celebrated among the learned! For as I said before, we may see that with reason as his guide he resolutely continued to affirm what sensible experience seemed to contradict. I cannot get over my amazement that he was constantly willing to persist in saying that Venus might go around the sun and be more than six times as far from us at one time than at other times as at another, and still look always equal, when it should have appeared forty times larger." Galileo

Even you now can say that previously astronomers believed that the direct/retrogrades of Venus and Mercury were gauged against the background stars, after all, this is the flawed animation you provided before -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYYwNvjr7Lg

That view is now gone as the Earth's orbital motion and a fixed central Sun shows the back and forth motions of Venus and Mercury in the inner solar system with the Sun's glare largely screened out -

https://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data...current_c3.gif


Celebrate something wonderful for a change as this is here to stay and not to leave. Maybe you are just completely immune to something good and wish to go on biting just for the sake of it yet I do these things for those who can make sense of imaging rather than those who won't or can't adapt for subculture reasons.