The complete picture put together by McCarthy, with the solar flare or prominence at the bottom.
A sensational image of the Sun in blood red, composed of 100,000 photos taken from the earthshows the star in intricate detail, including a solar flare of a building.
astrophotographer Andrea McCarthy said the sun image was one of the “sharpest” photos he had ever taken of our host star, reaching 230 megapixels.
McCarthy photographed the sun and the moon for three yearsbut this month he faced his “most unique challenge” ever.
The Sun, the parent star of the Solar System.
Using a new ultra-sharp solar telescope, the Californian photographer superimposed thousands of images to capture the sun in stunning detail.
Protuberances are masses of plasma that are detonated in the Sun’s atmosphere.
The close-up zoom shows a ghostly image of that solar phenomenon.
The huge image shows the round sun shining a deep and dramatic red highlighted against a dark sky. The combined photo is so clear that you can even see the it just shapes on the outer edge of the sun, dancing in the atmosphere like a flame. It took nearly 100,000 individual photos of the sun, at a rate of around 100 photos per second to capture the astonishing detail in which a solar flare building known as a protuberance is seen.
“I am very satisfied with the final result. I wasn’t sure the image would look so goodbecause stitching together a large photo of the sun comes with unique challenges I’ve never faced before, ”McCarthy told Mailonline in 2021, when he unveiled the image.
A detail of the evocative image of the Sun made by photographer Andrew McCarthy.
“By capturing details near the surface with this rig, timed when the atmosphere was very calm, I was able to produce sharp points on its surface. These objects around the edge of the Sun are known as a” prominence “: a mass of plasma suspended in the atmosphere by the powerful magnetic field of the sun. They are widespread and I was lucky enough to catch them, ”McCarthy said.
The largest photo of the Milky Way
In February 2021, the work of the Finnish astrophotographer was also known JP Metsavanio, which from 2009 had to face the arduous task of creating a mosaic of the Milky Way. He managed to get the most complete and amazing image ever, which consists of more than 200 individual mosaic panels sewn together.
The total exposure time in those 12 years of work was approximately 1,250 hours. It not only managed to capture the entire galaxy, but also 20 million stars within the Milky Way.
The life-size photo, with rarely seen depth, taken by astrophotographer JP Metsavainio.
“I think this is the first image to show the Milky Way at this resolution and depth in all three color channels,” Metsavainio told the photography website. petapixel. “It took almost twelve years to complete this mosaic image,” wrote the artist on her blog. Astro Anarchy. “The reason for that long period of time is, of course, the size of the mosaic and the fact that the image is very deep. I also photographed most of the mosaic frames as individual compositions and published them as works of art. independent “.
Putting the images together was a matter of matching the stars and overlay them in Photoshop, with minor adjustments between frames to match color balance and light curves, explained Metsavainio. It is an important strip of the galactic plane, which includes the display of 20 million stars. The colors represent the emission of ionized elements: hydrogen is shown in green, sulfur in red and oxygen in blue.
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