The Sun is represented by the 76.2m diameter bowl of the Lovell telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory. All our planet sizes and orbits are scaled to this relative size.
The cache is along a nearby lane at a good viewing spot. You are about 460m away from the telescope, which equates to being about 8.3 million km from the Sun.
The cache is hidden at a small parking spot along a lane so please take care when retrieving it.
The Sun
The Sun is 1,390,000km in diameter. It is made up of 70% hydrogen, 28% helium and 2% metals. Nuclear fusion in the Sun is slowly converting that hydrogen into helium and emitting energy as light, heat and charged particles that can cause effects on Earth including power line surges, radio interference and the aurora borealis.
The Sun’s temperature is nearly 6,000 C at the surface and 15.6 million C at its core. It rotates on its axis but not being solid this rotation speed varies from every 25.4 days at the equator to up to 36 days at the poles.
The sun’s corona extends millions of kilometers into space. Temperatures in the corona reach over 1 million C, so it is many times hotter here than at the Sun's surface.