APOD: The Crown of the Sun (2010 Jul 21)

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The Crown of the Sun

Explanation: 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.

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[Mikes]

Is that Mercury or Venus off to the left, or just some dust on the lens?

[diederik]

Is it mercury or venus?
Is north at the top of the picture?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_so ... st_century
gives location and date/time of the eclipse: July 11, 2010 19:34:38 Total 05m 20s 19°42′S 121°54′W / 19.7°S 121.9°W

http://www.wwu.edu/depts/skywise/planets.html
shows the position of the planets.

[neufer]

Is that Mercury or Venus off to the left, or just some dust on the lens?

Remember that that area is the most light sensitive part of the image and should observe many faint stars.

Mercury or Venus would have to be within less than a day of (a close) conjunction
... so much less than a 1% a priori probability of being that close.

[workgazer]

what caused the rings around the image ? i can see a pink hue then a thin green ring and a blue purple one beyond that.
Is this just a result of the photo or a feature of the corona?

[orin stepanek]

I clicked on the link full earth and got a grey blank!

[owlice]

This gorgeous image appeared with other eclipse pictures on the Observation Deck forum in this thread.

[vstill]

New here. Hello all.

There is a cool video on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR6wVyBL ... r_embedded) of the eclipse as seen at sunset in Argentina.

[Beyond]

I clicked on the link full earth and got a grey blank!

Orin, go back to the original Apod picture and then click on "full Earth". Sometimes the pictures do not carry over through the links.

[Chris Peterson]

I clicked on the link full earth and got a grey blank! :?

The link in the APOD caption at the top of this discussion is incorrect. There is a space in the middle that shouldn't be there, so the necessary parameters are not being passed to the simulator. Either use the link in the original APOD, or you can click here.

[bystander]

The link in the APOD caption at the top of this discussion is incorrect. There is a space in the middle that shouldn't be there, so the necessary parameters are not being passed to the simulator.

fixed Thanks, Chris!

[mexhunter]

Hi:
Great technique and great photography.
Regards
Cesar

[gorbit]

Are those curved lines on the top and bottom of the image the magnetic field's effect on the corona?

[orin stepanek]

Thanks Chris; thanks bystander; thanks Beyond! That's a neat picture too!

[rsanchez]

Wow! Cool picture I have never seen anything like that