I'm somewhat known for doing crazy high-resolution shots of the moon, but until recently, my solar shots couldn't produce the same level of clarity. Over the weekend I built a new solar telescope (this takes special gear, don't try it unless you know what you're doing) to enable me to get ultra-clear details of the solar surface. This is a mosiac, and each panel of the mosaic is a stack of thousands of images. This is by far my most ambitious solar project I've done, but it was quite fun!
This is also processed close to how it appears to the eye through the scope, except details on the limb have been brightened for visibility and sadly the sun is far too bright to see stars like this, but this is actually how it would appear in space if it were much, much dimmer!
Unfortunately this is cropped and heavily compressed to be posted on reddit. You can find my work with low compression if you check out the links in my instagram bio.
To see some close crops of this, and some behind the scenes of this, come check out my insta (cosmic_background) I plan on posting a timelapse of one of the prominences in this image soon.
ajamesmccarthy on April 6th, 2021 at 16:03 UTC »
First of all, never point a telescope at the sun.
I'm somewhat known for doing crazy high-resolution shots of the moon, but until recently, my solar shots couldn't produce the same level of clarity. Over the weekend I built a new solar telescope (this takes special gear, don't try it unless you know what you're doing) to enable me to get ultra-clear details of the solar surface. This is a mosiac, and each panel of the mosaic is a stack of thousands of images. This is by far my most ambitious solar project I've done, but it was quite fun!
This is also processed close to how it appears to the eye through the scope, except details on the limb have been brightened for visibility and sadly the sun is far too bright to see stars like this, but this is actually how it would appear in space if it were much, much dimmer!
Unfortunately this is cropped and heavily compressed to be posted on reddit. You can find my work with low compression if you check out the links in my instagram bio.
To see some close crops of this, and some behind the scenes of this, come check out my insta (cosmic_background) I plan on posting a timelapse of one of the prominences in this image soon.
god_sidge on April 6th, 2021 at 16:05 UTC »
Damn son, I think I've flown past that in Elite Dangerous.
Nice image!
SinSpreader88 on April 6th, 2021 at 17:46 UTC »
"The blood moon rises once again. Please be careful, Link..."