I am certainly not prepared to ignore lines in this pointless internet debate! I did my master thesis on lines, how dare you?! Furthermore, this is a discussio

I am certainly not prepared to ignore lines in this pointless internet debate! I did my master thesis on lines, how dare you?! Furthermore, this is a discussion of the sun and not some far away "star" nobody ever even resolved to a disk. On the sun we see the convection zones plainly, and thus speaking of a single temperature of what is clearly a feature with structure could be wery misleading (in certain specialised circumstances).