Astrophotographer captures stunningly detailed photos of our 'fuzzy' sun

image via Space.com

July 7, 2024, 2:00 PM

• •Astrophotographer Mark Johnston captured these incredible images of the sun from his backyard in Scottsdale, Arizona.
• •The images show the highly detailed chromosphere with erupting solar prominences and filaments.
• •Johnston used a 160mm hydrogen alpha-modified refractor telescope and a high-speed monochrome camera to capture the images.

Astrophotographer Mark Johnston captured these incredible images of the sun from his backyard in Scottsdale, Arizona. The sun has been anything but quiet as we approach solar maximum, the peak of solar activity during the sun's approximately 11-year solar cycle. Johnston used a 160mm hydrogen alpha-modified refractor telescope and a high-speed monochrome camera to capture 2000 10 millisecond frames for each image. Then, in post-production, the best 200 frames from each scene were stacked to create a single image. Further enhancements and sharpening techniques were then applied.

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