Image:Betelgeuse viewed from 8au.jpg

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This image is unrealistic -- would anyone be willing to improve it? A typical (copyrighted) visible-light image is shown at:

http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/telescopes/coast/700_sm2.gif

If someone could produce some artwork with a similarly-soft edge and similarly-bright hotspots on it, that would be extremely useful.

Typical fortnightly variation of the surface hotspots can be seen at:

http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/1997MNRAS.291..819W/0000824.000.html

Rnt20 09:04, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

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The red supergiant star, Betelgeuse, viewed from a distance of 8 AU. Image created with Celestia by Will Fox and released into the public domain.
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own work by Wjfox2005
English Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Betelgeuse_viewed_from_8au.jpg
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uploaded on 2006-08-06
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