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• July 21, 2010

  Crown of the sun

  [posted by Benz Roos]

  

  The Crown of the Sun by Alain Maury and Jean-Luc Dauvergne

  Photo’s by Alain Maury and Jean-Luc Dauvergne.“During a total solar eclipse, the Sun’s extensive outer atmosphere, or corona, is an inspirational sight. Subtle shades and shimmering features that engage the eye span a brightness range of over 10,000 to 1, making them notoriously difficult to capture in a single photograph. But this composite of 7 consecutive digital images over a range of exposure times comes close to revealing the crown of the Sun in all its glory. The telescopic views were recorded from the Isla de Pascua (Easter Island) during July 11′s total solar eclipse and also show solar prominences extending just beyond the edge of the eclipsed sun. Remarkably, features on the dim, near side of the New Moon can also be made out, illuminated by sunlight reflected from a Full Earth” source: astronomy picture of the day

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