This is one well-prepared fella, the shuttle crossed the disc of the sun in less than one second.
(I'm guessing that these long tongues of flame we've seen in pictures coming from the sun are much too small to show in a picture like this.)
Update: Damien helps out: it turns out the sun is exceptionally quiet at the moment.
Mm, solar flare aren't too small, see this other image by the same guy.
ReplyDeleteI suppose you can't see them here either because there weren't any at the time, or because they don't show in the color and intensity range captured here. I frankly don't know.
No, those are flippin' big. Almost as big as the airplane!
ReplyDeleteMainly, I'm pretty sure solar flares are a lot less luminous than our star itself. So here they'd get erased in the relative darkness.
ReplyDeleteThis must be one doozy of a filter, because even by fiercely adjusting the gamma levels on my photo editor, all I can see are the artifacts of JPEG compression.
Well, here's the answer!
ReplyDeletePascal's right: it's one doozy of a filter like so http://www.solarobserving.com/halpha.htm
ReplyDeleteDoozy of a filter to accomplish what?
ReplyDeleteEliminate most of the light from the sun except for a very very narrow band in which the flares, etc, shine.
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