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If you're a photography fan or interested in science or just ever looked through a telescope with curiosity, you must read this!

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Holy solar retinopathy! That’s the Sun?

Yup. But this is not a space-based image from some bazillion dollar observatory! This phenomenal picture was taken by astrophotographer Alan Friedman with this relatively small (but very, very nice) ’scope. He shot it on October 20th, and it shows our nearest star in the light of hydrogen, specifically what astronomers call Hα (H-alpha). I’ll get to that in a sec…

[texasmr2]

WOOOOOOW!!! Very very very cool pic.

[scotty]

That is amazing!

See that little bright spot on the plume on the left, just above the Sun’s edge? That spot is the same size as the Earth.

Mindblowing stuff.

[madbrad]

Now I get your username.

[texasmr2]

Now I get your username.

I just realized that aswell!

[MattMK45]

I guaruntee 99.9% of people would say it was CGI. Absolutley stunning!

[SennaVille]

I like this quote:

"See that little bright spot on the plume on the left, just above the Sun’s edge? That spot is the same size as the Earth".

Astronomy based facts like that never cease to me!

eta: this little tid-bit http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/20 ... -emp_N.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;