NASA: Show us how it's done? SOL High Def. Video

[size=1.20em]NASA's SDO's Ultra-high Definition View of 2012 Venus Transit[/size]
... The detail shown in the SUN is amazing, AMAZING!


        [youtube]4Z9rM8ChTjY[/youtube]


        [size=1.2em][shadow=grey,left]w00d[/shadow][/size]


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Nice find wOOd. It is quite amazing. 

Thanks again Bill

And BEST viewed larger on the YouTube page but of course in Hi-Def    ...

• NASA's SDO's Ultra-high Definition - Viewed at YouTube

But unfortunately for this NOOB I need to VIEW in Low-Def as my System's Video Card
doesn't handle High-Def all that WELL, if at ALL 

Question: I know Pelagic Pilot previously posted YouTube URL's that default to High-Def!
                So I'm wondering HOW he DID that or what TAG's need to be added to the
                Video's URL's to have them RUN High-def video first?

                                                                                  Thanks in Advance - w00d

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More Info: Quoting the video's byline

Launched on Feb. 11, 2010, the Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, is the most advanced spacecraft ever designed to study the sun. During its five-year mission, it will examine the sun's atmosphere, magnetic field and also provide a better understanding of the role the sun plays in Earth's atmospheric chemistry and climate.  SDO provides images with resolution 8 times better than high-definition television and returns more than a terabyte of data each day.

On June 5 2012, SDO collected images of the rarest predictable solar event--the transit of Venus across the face of the sun.  This event happens in pairs eight years apart that are separated from each other by 105 or 121 years.  The last transit was in 2004 and the next will not happen until 2117.

The videos and images displayed here are constructed from several wavelengths of extreme ultraviolet light and a portion of the visible spectrum.  The red colored sun is the 304 angstrom ultraviolet, the golden colored sun is 171 angstrom, the magenta sun is 1700 angstrom, and the orange sun is filtered visible light.  304 and 171 show the atmosphere of the sun, which does not appear in the visible part of the spectrum.

This video is public domain and can be downloaded at ...
... http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010900/a010996/index.html

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I have been having trouble viewing anything above about 360p lately without start and stops which is quite aggravating. This loaded in full HD and played nonstop to the end. 

You really don't give much thought about how active our sun is until you see something like this.  Just amazing in full screen. 

Now I think on some more, I couldn't DO high-Del that well on my GOOD (before it went up in blue-smoke) high performance Video Card. With that and your information Bill I'm now thinking my system (CPU/Memory) might be the issue causing my poor High-Def performance. Either way though I to am stuck w/ 360p until I buy new, bah

[quote author=GPBill link=topic=1359.msg9308#msg9308 date=1339088565]You really don't give much thought about how active our sun is until you see something like this.  Just amazing in full screen[/quote]

Agreed, I could watch video like this for hours, the detail shown is truly "AMAZING" LOL, or even Mesmerizing!



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Cool !!! Have a look, the Earth at Night ...

Here's N.America, but go to the website for more, each picture showing a different 'continent' at night




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These photos look fake or Photoshoped.