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This Stunning 4K Timelapse of the Sun is Made from 78,846 NASA Photos

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Astro filmmaker Seán Doran has used a set of 78,846 repaired, rescaled, and remastered AIA Angstrom 171 photos from NASA's Solar Dynamic Observatory to create a dramatic 48-minute timelapse video of the Sun as it moves over the course of a month.

The NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is a mission that the space agency has been using to observe the sun since it was launched on February 11, 2010. The observatory is part of the Living With a Star (LWS) program. According to NASA, the goal of the LWS program is to study the aspects of the Sun-Earth system that directly affect life and society on the planet. The SDO itself is used to understand the influence of the Sun on the Earth by studying the solar atmosphere in small scales of time and in many wavelengths simultaneously.

There are three instruments on the SDO that capture different wavelengths of light: Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment (EVE), the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI), and the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA). Below is a collage of solar images from the DO that shows how observations of the Sun in different wavelengths helps highlight different aspects of the Sun's surface and atmosphere:

A collage of solar images that show different wavelengths of lightNASA/SDO/Goddard Space Flight Center

The third of these instruments, the AIA, has the full name of the AIA 171 Å (Angstrom), and it shows the quiet corona and coronal loops, typically colorized in gold. As explained by NASA:

The Sun emits light in all colors, but since yellow is the brightest wavelength from the Sun, that is the color we see with our naked eye. Specialized instruments can observe light far beyond the ranges visible to the naked eye. Different wavelengths convey information about different components of the Sun's surface and atmosphere.

The Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, images 10 different wavelengths, measured in angstroms (Å), with its Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) instrument.

Below is the most recent photo (at the time of publication) captured by the AIA 171 Angstrom as an example:

Most recent photo of the Sun captured by the ADO AIA

As spotted by Laughing Squid, Doran used 78,846 frames taken by this particular instrument on the SDO during the month of August in 2014. After repairing, processing, and rescaling them to fit his desired look, he created about 22 minutes of footage at 60 frames per second. After slowing that down to half that for more traditional viewing, the finished video is 44 minutes long and shows a slow pan over the Sun that would normally take 31 days to see.

For more like this, Doran has a large library of stunning astro-focused videos that use NASA imagery on his YouTube Channel.

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#Mort de Franck Olivier - 8 nov 2021 (" #Astro le petit robot", " #Albator 84"...)

Franck Olivier, connu pour avoir été le chanteur des génériques des séries animées Astro le petit robot et Albator 84, est mort à l'âge de 73 ans, a annoncé sur Facebook son épouse.

#Compilation en #Hommage à #FranckOlivier
Titre 01 Albator 84 Durée 2 Minutes et 53 Secondes
Titre 02 Le Retour D'Albator Face B Du Générique Albator 84 Durée 2 Minutes et 53 Secondes
Titre 03 Là Bande à Grobo ( Version Mono ) Durée 3 Minutes et 04 Secondes

Titre 04 Là Bande à Grobo ( Version Stéréo )
Durée 3 Minutes et 04 Secondes
Titre 05 Astro Le Petit Robot Durée 3 Minutes et 07 Secondes
Titre 06 Albator 84 Clip Officiel Durée 2 Minutes et 35 Secondes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDW7dXvMyL0
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Astrophotographer Turns His Space Photos Into Kaleidoscopic Artworks

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Finnish astrophotographer J-P Metsavainio is known for spending 12 years exposing a gigantic photo of the Milky Way. In addition to his impressive photos, he has also been using them for abstract, kaleidoscopic "Vision" artworks.

"Pickering's Triangle," the original photo the above artwork was created from.

"I'm an astrophotographer but first of all I'm a visual artist," Metsavainio tells PetaPixel. "As an artist, I'm dazzled by all the forms I'm able to capture in my photos of cosmic objects, nebulae, supernova remnants, galaxies, etc. Colors from ionized elements are connected to the shapes and textures and they form a physical reality around us.

"The Vision series of photographic artworks is based on my photographs of cosmic formations. I have used an old photographic art method of multiple exposures over the same photo, or, as I call it, the 'overlapping lightning method'."

Mosaic Panorama of Western Gygnus A Vision artwork created from "Mosaic Panorama of Western Gygnus." A Vision artwork created from "Mosaic Panorama of Western Gygnus."

"[This concept] was fashionable back in the 1920s among experimental and surrealistic photographers, and at the time the work was done in a darkroom," the photographer says. "I'm using about the same technique but instead of a darkroom, I'm using digital image processing.

The original photo is rotated, moved, and/or mirrored as I like, and then multiple layers stacked back together so that the original brightness is maintained. For this task, I use Photoshop and various astronomical stacking applications."

Eastern Part of the Veil Nebula Supernova remnant. A Vision artwork created from "Eastern Part of the Veil Nebula Supernova remnant." A Vision artwork created from "Eastern Part of the Veil Nebula Supernova remnant." A Vision artwork created from "Eastern Part of the Veil Nebula Supernova remnant."

"The process is not very fast since I carefully plan the final composition before I do the actual work," Metsavainio says. "There is lots of trial and error before the correct combination of movements and rotations is found.

Metsavainio says he spends three to five days on average on each of his Vision series images. He has regularly created them over the past decade but has shared very few of them since they have largely been a personal project.

"As an artist, I'm telling a story with my photos, and many times my artworks are also personal notes," Metsavainio says. "The Vision series of photos are forming visual notes about shapes, structures, textures, and colors I have seen and captured during my couple of decades-long journey as an astronomical nature photographer."

You can find a larger gallery of Vision art here and more of Metsavainio's work on his website and portfolio.

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