One of the Clearest Photographs of the Sun Ever

When we look at it with the naked eye, the Sun, which only stands in the sky as a yellow bright ball, actually has a much more complex and intimidating structure than that. The Sun, which heats everything around it with its energy, together with our planet Earth, was revealed to us in magnificent details by an astrophotographer after long efforts.

Photographer Andrew McCarthy took more than 150,000 photos in total with a specially modified telescope. Then, after about 14 hours of effort, he brought all the photos together and created the Sun photo, which we will see shortly, and these photo fragments. McCarthy’s photo had a resolution of 300 megapixels.

Perhaps the most detailed photo of the Sun

McCarthy took all the frames that make up this photo on November 29, 2021 with the Explore Scientific AR127 telescope he modified. The photographer used the ‘quick shot’ technique to capture the photos. With this technique, each photo had a resolution of 2.1 megapixels and a density of 16 bits.

The final photograph, which he named ‘Fire and Fusion’, allowed us to see the chaotic landscape of the Sun, perhaps most clearly, to date. The photograph, of course, also passed through some human hands. The edges of the Sun were getting darker due to the filter he used under normal conditions. But McCarthy processed the photo to allow us to see these parts as well, especially the plasma emanating from the Sun.

This photo, which is another shared photo, showed one of the most active regions of the Sun. We can clearly see the magnetic fields in the photo, and we can examine the plasmas emanating from the Sun more closely.

Those who want to reach the photo in full resolution can purchase the photo by clicking this link.

In the meantime, there is an important warning from McCarthy for those who are interested in this business: It is extremely dangerous to use normal telescopes to look at the Sun. It has been reported that some people who look at the Sun with a telescope to date are visually impaired or even blind.