The diameter of the sun is about 1,392,684 kilometers, when compared to Earth it is 109 times larger. The mass of the sun is about 2×1,030 kilograms or 330,000 times the mass of the Earth. Can you imagine how the face of the sun is very smoldering?
Well, the appearance of the sun’s face is clearly and in detail well recorded by an Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy. He showed a number of photos of the sun that he managed to capture through his personal official twitter account @AjamesMcCarthy.
Whereas the average distance from the Sun to Earth is about 149.6 million kilometers (1 AU/astronomical unit). With a plane traveling at 10,000 kilometers per hour, it would take more than 20 months to cover this distance. (Read also; Touch the Sun for the First Time, This NASA Spacecraft Breaks the Temperature of 1,370 Degrees Celsius )
“You are looking at a 300 megapixel photo of our Sun. Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy, using a specially modified telescope, took more than 150,000 individual photos and combined them into this extraordinary image.
This image of the sun is simply stunning and records in great detail the awesomeness it holds. McCarthy takes this picture from his backyard in Arizona, United States, on November 29, 2021. (Read also; This man can stare at the sun for 1 hour without even blinking )
McCarthy used the modified Explore Scientific AR127 telescope. He used a fast capture technique to capture all the images, each 2.1 megapixel 16 bit image.
“Yesterday I took a 300 megapixel photo of the sun. This is done using a specially modified telescope. DO NOT point a regular telescope at the sun,” McCarty tweeted.
McCarthy says filters are essential for any type of Sun display. Filters and processes carried out are able to show the chromosphere layer of the Sun or the second outermost layer of the Sun.
“It took about 10 hours to stack all the data, and another 3-4 hours to get it from the raw stack to the final image,” McCarthy said.
–McCarthy strongly advises against trying this kind of thing unless you know the technique properly. Because, it is very risky to look at the sun directly.
“People go blind when they try to see the Sun through telescopes. Mine is designed to wash away the intense heat generated from the Sun,” he says.
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