Image source, any. Schaberger
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A huge column of plasma extending about 200,000 kilometers above the sun's south pole.
This is what Eduardo Schaberger, an amateur astrophotographer from Santa Fe, Argentina, captured with his camera.
Image source, Eduardo Schaberger
Image source, Eduardo Schaberger
The stunning images show a prominence that is rarely observed, since most of these phenomena occur near the solar equator.
In order to include the vastness of the plasma column in a single image, Eduardo had to rotate his camera, then adjust the image's orientation through editing to accurately represent its grandeur.
Image source, Eduardo Schaberger
“Solar photography is very difficult, because there is a big problem: when you want to photograph the Sun in detail, you have to do it by viewing it through the Earth’s atmosphere,” Schaberger explains to BBC Mundo.
“It requires a lot of work and a lot of patience,” he stresses. Let us wait for those moments of stability in the atmosphere To be able to edit the capture and be lucky to have some good quality frames.
Atmospheric turbulence, a major challenge in high-resolution astrophotography, tends to distort the image, an effect that is exacerbated when imaging the Sun, whose heat heats up and disturbs the various layers of the atmosphere.
Image source, Eduardo Schaberger
Image with ultraviolet light.
To confront these difficulties, Eduardo used a technique known as “Lucky photography“.
This method consists of capturing video sequences with many frames in the hope that they coincide with moments of atmospheric stability.
He then carefully selected and assembled between 70 and 100 of these frames to reduce digital noise, thus improving image clarity.
Image source, Eduardo Schaberger
Eduardo's passion for the universe goes back to his childhood, when he was fascinated by observing the night sky, marveling at the mysteries hidden in the stars.
Today, armed with his own equipment, he dedicates himself to capturing the magnificence of the solar system, with a particular focus on the Sun.
He describes each photo session as an encounter with the sublime, where enormous sunspots, filaments dancing across the surface, and prominent stars rising thousands of miles into space reveal the splendor and power of the sun.
Image source, Eduardo Schaberger
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