The Sun's South and North Poles
Taken by Peter Rosén on May 12, 2024 @
Central Stockholm, Sweden
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Date Taken: 2025:07:28 20:51:29
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In May and June of 2024 I managed to photograph the Sun for 32 days in a row, just one day missing because the sky was completely overcast.
As the Sun rotates at differential speed, approximately 25 days at the equator and 35 days at the very Poles, you have to wait for 12 to 14 days before you can get a view of the Sun's opposite side and during that period the surface of the Sun has evolved so you cannot just stitch the images together the way we do for Mars or Jupiter.
I have now remaped a selection of images to reveal the Sun's Poles at that interval and put in a thin line to separate the 2 views.
On top of that I have let the perspective go further than the equator as it puts the Poles into the context we are familiar with, the view along the equator (second image shows a thin line along the equtorial horizon).
In March of this year, the Solar Orbiter Probe was able to take the first image ever of the Sun's South Pole after its orbit had been tilted by 15° and it also made many interesting findings regarding among others the switching of the magnetic Poles as we are going through the solar maximum of cycle 25.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yQS_X7z_n0
So my image might be the first ever of the Sun's North Pole and the second one showing the South Pole.
Peter R
Photographer's website:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHk3PjtPfqg
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