Paper Moon Solar Eclipse

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Behold: a paper moon, a canvas Sun and cardboard clouds. Not really. To wit:

The featured picture of an orange coloured sky is real — a digital composite of two exposures of the solar eclipse that occurred earlier this month. The first exposure was taken with a regular telescope that captured an overexposed Sun and an underexposed Moon, while the second image was taken with a solar telescope that captured details of the chromosphere of the background Sun. The Sun’s canvas-like texture was brought up by imaging in a very specific shade of red emitted by hydrogen. Several prominences can be seen around the Sun’s edge. The image was captured just before sunset from Xilingol, Inner Mongolia, China. It’s also not make-believe to imagine that the Moon is made of dense rock, the Sun is made of hot gas, and clouds are made of floating droplets of water and ice.

(Image: Wang Letian (Eyes at Night)

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2 thoughts on “Paper Moon Solar Eclipse

  1. Junkface

    Very cool effect there. I thought for a moment there were no effects added, but there’s digital composites. Still cool.

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