I captured a 145 megapixel image of our sun using a specially modified telescope. Zoom in!

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image showing I captured a 145 megapixel image of our sun using a specially modified telescope. Zoom in!

ajamesmccarthy on August 16th, 2022 at 20:38 UTC »

DO NOT point a telescope at the sun. You could start a fire, or worse, go blind. Mine was specially designed to do this, and despite my experience, I’ve still had close calls using it. Seriously, don’t mess around with this unless you know what you’re doing.

This shot shows two layers of the solar atmosphere, the Corona and the Chromosphere, usually two layers that can't possibly be photographed together due to the absolutely extreme differences in brightness. Since I composited in my shot of the 2017 Solar Eclipse, they can be seen relative to each other.

The Chromosphere (the orange part) was captured last Tuesday, and was created by capturing a close-up image of each portion of the sun and stitching them all together. I applied lucky imaging techniques which involved thousands of individual photos per tile to conquer the atmospheric distortion that comes along with shooting something through the atmosphere at that focal length (nearly 4000mm).

You can see more of my work and learn about how I got into this hobby on my website

greatunknownpub on August 16th, 2022 at 20:54 UTC »

Cool, I'll just zoom in and check it out I'm sure it'll be OH MY GOD THAT'S INCREDIBLE

HeadLongjumping on August 16th, 2022 at 21:04 UTC »

It's fun watching gravity and nuclear fusion fight it out.