Solar H-Alpha Eyepiece View
Taken by Mike Taormina on August 6, 2017 @ Malta, New York, USA
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Date Taken: 2017:08:06 20:03:04
 
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Just in case you were wondering (or didn't already know), here's what the sun looks like at the eyepiece of a solar telescope equipped with a very narrow sub-Angstrom hydrogen-alpha filter system. It is a beautiful ruby red with all defining detail etched in varying shades of grey to black.
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close but the surrounding plage of the active regions is more of a glowing orange lava color. you need to stack two separate color layers to achieve that affect. Also note that it takes maybe 10 minutes of constant looking to see any of this, the eye must succumb to saturation.
Posted by amplelight 2017-08-06 22:35:53
 
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