I captured a 145 megapixel image of our sun using a specially modified telescope. Zoom in!
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DO NOT point a telescope at the sun. You could start a fire, or worse, go blind. Mine was specially designed to do this, and despite my experience, I’ve still had close calls using it. Seriously, don’t mess around with this unless you know what you’re doing.
This shot shows two layers of the solar atmosphere, the Corona and the Chromosphere, usually two layers that can’t possibly be photographed together due to the absolutely extreme differences in brightness. Since I composited in my shot of the 2017 Solar Eclipse, they can be seen relative to each other.
The Chromosphere (the orange part) was captured last Tuesday, and was created by capturing a close-up image of each portion of the sun and stitching them all together. I applied lucky imaging techniques which involved thousands of individual photos per tile to conquer the atmospheric distortion that comes along with shooting something through the atmosphere at that focal length (nearly 4000mm).
You can see more of my work and learn about how I got into this hobby [on my website](https://cosmicbackground.io)
it’s clearly just a pepperoni
Cool, I’ll just zoom in and check it out I’m sure it’ll be OH MY GOD THAT’S INCREDIBLE
Holy crap! This might possibly be the greatest photo ever posted to /r/pics.
It’s fun watching gravity and nuclear fusion fight it out.
I zoomed all the way in and all I see are a bunch of Chewbaccas
Amazing result. Can you share some details of setup? Solar scope/filters, tracker/cam?
Amazing.
My brain hurts trying to visualise how much bigger Sol is compared to Earth. And our star isn’t even that big compared to other stars.
Awesome pic !
This looks incredible!
Clicked on the photo, clicked to zoom, and computer crashed so I’ll assume it is mindblowingly incredible. Please take my free award!
Anywhere I could download this full sized image? It’s awesome.
You never disappoint!! Brilliant as always.
You should find a nature photography contest and submit it. I bet you would win.
My brains are blown! It’s beautiful.
ENHANCE! ENHANCE!
It better not be chorizo!!!
It looks like a human egg thang
This would make a really cool alt-rock album cover
Seriously, great work OP. Very impressive shot!
Wow. Isn’t the Sun terrifying?
r/space would like to have a word
I’m a little disappointed I didn’t get Rick rolled
Why does this seem oddly familiar ☹️☹️
It’s like a lost Van Gogh.
That, my friend, is special. Thank you. I was actually humming There’s a little black spot on the sun today, whilst I zoomed and, behold, I found one. 😉
Ah! My eyes!
YOUR sun.
I didn’t vote for him.
It looks like a kickball.
Awesome picture! When I zoomed in , it looked like a dodge ball! 
Dude this picture is seriously fucking phenomenal. I’ve literally never seen any picture of the sun look this good. Nice work man! Not to get all existential or whatever but I’m high as fuck and it’s crazy looking at this picture and having the thought of “that right there is what gives us life. everyone you’ve ever heard of or known or anyone that has ever existed is all because of this beautiful glowing fucking ball in space.” Pretty crazy!
[https://i.redd.it/ffca9c9ez4i91.jpg](https://i.redd.it/ffca9c9ez4i91.jpg)
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