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Ptah

(33,034 posts) Tue Apr 2, 2024, 02:55 AM Apr 2

Astronomy Picture of the Day - Detailed View of a Solar Eclipse Corona

Only in the fleeting darkness of a total solar eclipse is the light of the solar corona easily visible. Normally overwhelmed by the bright solar disk, the expansive corona, the sun's outer atmosphere, is an alluring sight. But the subtle details and extreme ranges in the corona's brightness, although discernible to the eye, are notoriously difficult to photograph. Pictured here, however, using multiple images and digital processing, is a detailed image of the Sun's corona taken during the April 20, 2023 total solar eclipse from Exmouth, Australia. Clearly visible are intricate layers and glowing caustics of an ever changing mixture of hot gas and magnetic fields. Bright looping prominences appear pink just around the Sun's limb. A similar solar corona might be visible through clear skies in a narrow swath across the North America during the total solar eclipse that occurs just six days from today

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240402.html

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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Detailed View of a Solar Eclipse Corona (Original Post) Ptah Apr 2 OP

Traveling to Texas this coming weekend...... AZ8theist Apr 2 #1

Impressive Roy Rolling Apr 2 #2

AZ8theist

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1. Traveling to Texas this coming weekend......

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Tue Apr 2, 2024, 05:04 AM

Apr 2

If the pictures work out , I will post the best ones.....

Wish me luck.

Roy Rolling

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2. Impressive

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Tue Apr 2, 2024, 05:50 AM

Apr 2

Thanks for the image. It really captures the magnificence of the Sun planet like no image I’ve ever seen, for whatever that’s worth.

What excites me about this image is what we normally can’t see—the hot gasses and radiation normally invisible to the eye (if I was stupid enough to stare directly at the sun.)😂

What’s hidden from me is the visible record of the warmth/radiation we can feel 93 million miles away. The corona is a true wonder, this image captures it better than anything I’ve seen. 👏 well done.

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