First Sun

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First Sun

[Public Domain] 8 Mar 2015 Dylan O'Donnell
CATEGORY : Astrophotography
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This is my first ever astrophoto of our star, Sol! It was taken with the Southern Astronomical Society’s $5,000 Lunt LS80THa Solar Telescope, and with my $350 QHY5L-II planetary CMOS camera. It’s a bit rushed as I grudgingly had to share the scope with the other members (hehe), and I was being roasted to death by the heat being emitted from the very thing I was trying to image.

This is a sharpened stack of only 3 frames. The red colour is because the telescope is a narrowband filter that only shows the photons at 656.3 nanometers, the size of photos emitted by hydrogen, which is what the sun, and you, and most of the universe is made of.

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Lunt LS80THa Solar Telescope

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