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Sun rages with sunbursts in slow motion

  • August 17, 2023
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Miguel Claro, European Southern Observatory photography ambassador and official astrophotographer of the Dark Sky Alqueva Reserve, specializes in astronomical “skyscapes” that combine Earth and the night sky. However,

Sun rages with sunbursts in slow motion

Miguel Claro, European Southern Observatory photography ambassador and official astrophotographer of the Dark Sky Alqueva Reserve, specializes in astronomical “skyscapes” that combine Earth and the night sky. However, in July, he took the first imaging of the entire solar disk and combined many interesting features of the bulges and flares’ motion into a time-lapse video.

The time-lapse image was taken from the Alqueva Dark Sky region in Portugal using the Player One Saturn-M SQR camera and the Lunt LS100 telescope. A total of 3TB of data has been removed.

The final video contains 213 rendered still frames, each the result of combining the top 200 frames of the original raw video. The result is a high-resolution 5K time-lapse video containing approximately 3 hours and 20 minutes of footage.

Important: Never look directly at or point a telescope or other optical equipment at the Sun without suitable special protective filters. It can damage your vision and even blind you permanently. Source

Source: Port Altele

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