Feel the facility of the sun on this incredible recent timelapse of solar activity.
Astrophotographer Miguel Claro of Lisbon, Portugal captured your entire full disc of the sun on Oct. 12, 2023, showing the sun streaking towards its maximum of activity in its 11-year solar cycle.
The brand new video, Claro wrote on his website, is “showing a whole lot of interesting features in motion, equivalent to eruptive prominences, filaments, energetic regions with minor flares, small spicules dancing like hair within the wind, and a fragile waved line of plasma,” Claro wrote.
The video shows the sun rotating over three hours with the plasma trapped within the sun’s strong magnetic fields lots of of miles (or kilometers) above the surface, Claro said, “until it (the plasma) has been released into space in a blink of a watch.”
Claro captured the timelapse from a dark sky site in Portugal’s Alqueva Dark Sky Reserve using a Player One Saturn-M SQR camera and a Lunt telescope LS100. The video was compressed from three terabytes of raw data. “The outcome is a 5K high resolution solar movie comprising 246 images over the course of about 3 hours,” he said.
To see more of Miguel Claro’s work, please see his website or follow his stories on Instagram at www.instagram.com/miguel_claro .
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