Miguel Claro is an expert photographer, creator and science communicator based mostly in Lisbon, Portugal, who creates spectacular photographs of the evening sky. As a European Southern Observatory Photograph Ambassador and member of The World At Evening and the official astrophotographer of the Darkish Sky Alqueva Reserve, he focuses on astronomical “Skyscapes” that join each Earth and the evening sky.
This time lapse of all the seen disk of the solar was captured on Sept. 2, 2024.
There are a lot of fascinating options seen occurring on the similar time throughout this 3-hour time lapse. We will see minor photo voltaic prominences (giant tendrils of plasma) and coronal loops erupting from the western (left) limb of the solar along with giant filaments and small spicules dancing like hair within the wind. These are composed of delicate traces of plasma floating away from the solar, propelled by the solar’s sturdy magnetic fields.
A quick and huge eruption on the western limb may be seen, which I later confirmed utilizing the CACTUS system to be a coronal mass ejection (CME) being unleashed. A strong M1.8-class photo voltaic flare from the sunspot area AR3813 preceded the CME, and a good stronger M2.9 flare adopted in fast succession from sunspot AR3807.
Lastly, a beautiful giant prominence rising like an umbrella thorn acacia tree may be seen ‘sprouting’ from the northern (topmost) fringe of the solar as if its ‘roots’ are being fed by the wild ‘savanna’ of the photo voltaic chromosphere.
I imagine that that is most likely one of the vital detailed photo voltaic time lapses ever made by an unbiased astrophotographer. It reveals the great thing about photo voltaic exercise with an unprecedented stage of element and depth as the results of a brand-new approach and workflow I’ve developed.
It is very important point out that these are actual photographs captured by me with particular photo voltaic tools with none AI technology or intervention at any a part of the method, not even for noise discount. I’ve extra behind-the-scenes info at my Instagram.
The film above was produced with music licensed from Envato titled “Business Area Rock” by AudioEarth, however I’ve additionally included the low frequency sounds of the solar within the first seconds of the video. This sonification of photo voltaic knowledge was produced by A. Kosovichev from the Stanford Experimental Physics Lab with Knowledge from ESA (European Area Company) and NASA’s Photo voltaic and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). The sound was sped up by an element of 42,000 in an effort to carry it into the audible vary of human listening to. You possibly can hear the remoted sound right here.
The solar’s pure vibrations present scientists with a concrete illustration of its dynamic actions, however as a result of lack of air in area, it is inconceivable to listen to or document the sounds of the solar as we understand sound on Earth. For a extra immersive audio/visible expertise, the sound of a volcanic eruption was added quietly within the background, synchronized with the occasions at which photo voltaic eruptions and huge prominences seem.
The time lapse sequence was captured from the Darkish Sky Alqueva reserve in Portugal with a Participant One Saturn-M SQR digicam and a Lunt telescope LS100, producing round 3TB of knowledge. The ultimate result’s a 5K excessive decision photo voltaic film composted 249 photographs over the course of about 3 hours, between UT11h28 and UT14h20 on Sept. 2, 2024.
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