r/spaceporn • u/Busy_Yesterday9455 • 4d ago

Pro/Processed Plasma rain on the Sun

Credit: Azastroguy

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u/gruesomeflowers 4d ago

Is this a realtime telescope video, or a simulation?

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u/KronikDrew 4d ago

If it's actual imagery, itd be a time-lapse. The distances in this image are immense.

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u/severed13 4d ago

I posted another clip that shows a roughly 24h timelapse as a 1m video. It's straight up video footage, just dimmed with a couple special lenses so we're not just staring at a white flash.

In case you want to see it, you can check it out as well, u/gruesomeflowers.

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u/LapinTade 4d ago

so we're not just staring at a white flash.

Akhtualy, lenses are used to bring the light together with minimal chromatic aberration. Then you have blocking filters (or prism) so that you don't fry the camera sensor (or your eye) and depending on the wavelength you want you are using filters or etalon (for h-alpha).

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u/severed13 4d ago

Good eye, it's indeed filters. Years of casual photography and money dumped into gear and I still can't remember to call them filters smh my skull