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The non-3D version of this image was selected as NASA's Astronomy Picture Of the Day for Dec. 6th, 2004, the Spaceweather.com cover, Astronomy.com's Picture of the Day, ATWB Picture of the Day. It is used by NASA on the Imagine the Universe! CD-Rom, featured on the French site www.planetastronamy.com, on RedNova.com, in the January issue of Italy's Coelum magazine and Coelum.com, The University of Tennessee Solar Study Guide and is being published in several other technical and teaching resources including TERC's Astrobiology: The Search of Life in the Universe.

Image Data:
 
Date: November 26th, 2004
Time: 2000UT
Location: Rockville, Maryland USA
Rotation: 2023
Instrument: SolarMax 90
Camera: SBIG ST-2000XM
Exposure: .004
Processing: Adobe Photoshop 6 and Callipygian 3D

©Greg Piepol

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