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Solar Prominences, Jan. 27, 2012--Video
Prominences on the Sun, viewed in the light of h-alpha, from Comanche Springs Astronomy Campus with Coronado 90mm 0.5-angstrom solar telescope.
One of a series of short videos used to create post-processed images like this one:
www.flickr.com/photos/chipdatajeffb/6773145295
The wiggly quality of the video is due to what we call astronomical seeing, which is a degree of atmospheric instability due to convection cells moving about in the air between the telescope and its target. This leadst o diminished resolution of detail in the image, so we use software to minimize this effect (as is shown by the referenced post-processed image).
Solar Prominences, Jan. 27, 2012--Video
Prominences on the Sun, viewed in the light of h-alpha, from Comanche Springs Astronomy Campus with Coronado 90mm 0.5-angstrom solar telescope.
One of a series of short videos used to create post-processed images like this one:
www.flickr.com/photos/chipdatajeffb/6773145295
The wiggly quality of the video is due to what we call astronomical seeing, which is a degree of atmospheric instability due to convection cells moving about in the air between the telescope and its target. This leadst o diminished resolution of detail in the image, so we use software to minimize this effect (as is shown by the referenced post-processed image).