An amateur astrophotographer pointed his telescope at the sun and saw the plume rise from the fiery surface at 100,000 miles per hour as it grew more than a million miles away.
Andrea McCarthyD., who lives in Arizona, told DailyMail.com that he spent six hours taking the more than a million photos he “assembled” to get the final image, but because the plank was so large, it was able to catch only half of it. of them in the photo.
A vigorous coronal mass ejection (CME) of gas released what McCarthy said was the largest solar bulge he had ever seen: a bright feature that extended from the surface some 500,000 miles away.
The day McCarthy noticed the sun was also when a small solar storm exploded on the sun, creating a large bulge that caught his attention.
“I’ve seen a lot of fame start to come – a clear sign that something exciting is about to happen,” he said.
So I keep my telescope pointed [at] And I see the ECM module.
These are the moments that solar astronomers experience.
Andrew McCarthy catches a large tuft emerging from the sun. The plasma stream extends for approximately one million miles. It happened during a small solar storm
A large lump forms on September 24, the day a solar storm erupts on the sun.
However, Storm falls into the lowest category and may go unnoticed on Earth.
The plasma plume began to emerge from the giant bulge and then broke, flying into space at 100,000 miles per hour, according to McCarthy, who also conducted the study. live broadcast program.
The image was taken with a modified 5-inch reflective telescope, which McCarthy said “had to be modified because pointing the telescope at the sun would have blinded you.”
The column slowly began to grow, reaching 200,000 miles and then 600,000 before reaching over a million and exploding into space.
“This is the distance from Earth to Earth Japan” [Jame Webb Space Telescope]Share the tweet.
McCarthy, who owns Exposure From the stunning images showing the wonders of space, he kept his eyes fixed on the column for at least two hours, watching it explode and hover in space as it approached a point the size of the moon, instead of roaring hot balls. gas I originally have.
And as it expands, it becomes weaker.
“The fame you see in that photo extends for about 500,000 miles, maybe a little less,” McCarthy told DailyMail.com.
McCarthy took over a million photos of the sun and edited them for the final piece. She watches the column grow until it breaks and floats across the sky. The photos are raw photos that I took
It’s easy to imagine when you realize the sun is 865,000 miles wide!
“The little fragments I tracked down in my live tweet were closer to a million miles away, but the fragments didn’t make it to the final image.”
McCarthy later explained that because he used so many photos, he incorporated a technique called “lucky photography” into his shots.
“I use the TIFF format (many photographers use the video format) because I feel it gives me more control to reject the wrong frames when the wind is strong or conditions are bad,” he said.
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