See the sun’s savage surface like never before in new timelapse video
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Miguel Claro is a professional photographer, author and science communicator based in Lisbon, Portugal, who captures spectacular images of the night sky. Like a Photo Ambassador of the European Southern Observatory and member of The world at night and the official astrophotographer of the Dark Sky Alqueva Reservehe specializes in astronomical ‘celestial landscapes’ that connect both Earth and the night sky.
Feel the power of the sun in this incredible new timelapse of solar activity.
Astrophotographer Miguel Claro from Lisbon, Portugal captured the entire disk the sun on October 12, 2023, with the sun approaching its maximum activity in its eleven years of existence solar cycle.
The new video, Claro wrote on his website“shows many interesting features in motion, such as erupting prominences, filaments, active areas with small eruptions, small spicules dancing like hair in the wind, and a delicate wavy line of plasma,” Claro wrote.
The video shows the sun spinning for three hours while the plasma is trapped in the sun’s strong magnetic fields, hundreds of miles (or kilometers) above the surface, Claro said, “until it (the plasma) is released into the sun .” room in the blink of an eye.”
Claro captured the time-lapse from a dark sky spot in Alqueva, Portugal Dark Sky Reserve using a Player One Saturn-M SQR camera and a Lunt telescope LS100. The video is compressed from three terabytes of raw data. “The end result is a high-resolution 5K solar movie consisting of 246 frames over the course of approximately 3 hours,” he said.
To see more of Miguel Claro’s work, visit his website or follow his stories on Instagram at www.instagram.com/miguel_claro.
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