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Astrophotographers Andrew McCarthy and Jason Genzel joined forces to create an unimaginable 140-megapixel image. sun. The composite image shows the surface of the burning star in rich detail, as well as a plasma “tornado” 14 times as high. Land. McCarthy spoke about the project to My Modern Met.
They have long admired each other’s work and were looking for an opportunity to work together. “He specializes in extracting incredible detail from raw data while my hometown makes large mosaic images of the Sun,” McCarthy said. “By combining our strengths, we were able to create an amazing project that pushes the boundaries of what is possible with amateur equipment,” he added.
To create the final image, McCarthy took about 200,000 photographs of the Sun. Over the course of five days, he and Gwenzel processed the data and composed the image. The image, now known as “Fusion of Helios,” uses 90,000 of McCarthy’s photos, as well as an image of the 2017 eclipse taken by Guenzel.
Combine science and art
McCarthy explained that “Capturing the Sun requires a bit of skill because of the nature of the task.” “The extreme range of color tones found in the different layers of the atmosphere means that no type of conventional photography will be able to reveal them all. That’s why it takes some creative interpretation.”
In this case, we added the solar corona and the stars behind it, which would normally be invisible except in the event of a solar eclipse. Although the addition was an artistic choice, great care was taken to transform Jason’s image of the 2017 eclipse to align geometrically with the solar activity in That day; an image from NASA’s SOHO was used as a reference (see. Space Observatory for the Sun),” he explained.
He concluded, “The result is a mixture of science and art; and my favorite project I’ve ever been a part of.”
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