[jeleh]

Best looking image ever captured of the Sun's entire surface goes to:

https://x.com/AJamesMcCarthy/status/1638648459002806272

by

Andrew McCarthy: https://www.instagram.com/cosmic_background/

Jason Guenzel: https://www.instagram.com/thevastreaches/

[cornstalks]

For anyone that wants to buy the 139 megapixel image for printing, it's $50 here: https://cosmicbackground.io/products/fusion-of-helios

I'm not affiliated, but I've been seriously debating it for a long time. The photo is a composite of the sun and the sun's heliosphere from the 2017 eclipse. One of my favorite images of the Sun.

[rr808]

Do you think that is original or some AI enhanced copy of the twitter img?

[financetechbro]

I am very tempted now

[sans_souse]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fr2elMpaMAAqgZN?format=jpg&name=...

[PittleyDunkin]

I have to imagine capturing an image over five days shows how static something is, not dynamic. Very confusing wording there! Great photo, though.

[itishappy]

It's not quite a time lapse. They took 90000 images, but they will be selecting the sharpest and most interesting subset for each section of image, not just smearing them all together.

[_xerces_]

Maybe static vs. dynamic have different meanings when talking about celestial objects that are billions of years old, 864,000 miles across and a million times the size of the planet you're living on?

[IAmGraydon]

That’s beautiful, but not really a photo of the sun. It’s heavily processed and digitally modified.

[andruby]

It’s still a photo of the sun, even if processed. You wouldn’t see much on an unprocessed photo of the sun..

[dylan604]

What a disingenuous comment. It's not a generative AI image. It's not something someone drew/painted. It's photographic data combined together.

If you want to be pedantic, every single picture ever taken with a digital camera is digitally modified. Every single image shot on film and scanned to be used on a computer is digitally modified.

Just because you can't take a photo of the sun anywhere close to this does not mean others of us cannot, and does not make their actual images of the sun not real. Using proper filters so you do not melt your equipment allows for images of the photosphere to be captured. Using the moon to filter the photosphere during an eclipse allows the corona to be seen. It's not like it's not there except during an eclipse. It's just too faint to be captured without the filter.

That's what the SRO uses a cornograph to block the photosphere at all times to be able to image the corona.

Imaging the sun is very fun and challenging, and I'd suggest you'd learn a lot from reading up on it. Whether you'd actually enjoy it is beyond the scope of this forum

[casenmgreen]

Twitter say "something went wrong", plus three dialogues consuming or obscuring something more than half the page.

[static_motion]

Big fan of Andrew McCarthy's work, been following him on IG for a few years now. The stuff he's able to pull off as a backyard astrophotographer is very impressive.