Plasma falling to the surface of the sun.
Plasma falling to the surface of the sun.
Another cloud free day in Scotland let me catch almost 9 hours of this huge and lively prom. Taken with my home made 90mm modded Coronado PST and DMK21 camera. Software: CdC, Eqmod, DSSR, AutoStakkert!, Wavesharp, DVS, Shotcut and Gimp.
David Wilson on April 8, 2025 @ Inverness, Scotland
https://spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=221951
The "earth to scale" really boggles my mind 🫨
Thank you, I didn't even see that.
Needs banana
It's there, you just gotta zoom in a bit.
There is banana on the Earth
it really puts things in perspective...
All that energy and here we are burning oil like cavemen in the dark.
Caveman didn't burn oil 🤓
They might have soaked fabric or some other material in animal fat (which is just oil that's solid at room temperature), wrapped it around the end of a stick, and lit it on fire. 🤓🤓
checkmate communists
And, if they did, it probably wouldn't be dark anymore.
You know any efficient way to harness that energy?
It's crazy this guy is just doing this on his own. Looks like something from NASA to me.
Looks like the video is about 20 minutes of real time per 1 second of video. There are dops of plasma that fall further than the diameter of Earth in less than one in video second... which means the plasma is falling the more than the diameter of Earth in less than 20 minutes. That's close to 100,000 mph or 160,000 kph. Dang
About 0.01% of the speed of light. I got a Lorentz factor of 1.00000001 so not quite fast enough for relativistic stuff.
The description states it was ~9h of video
Description says the poster caught 9h of video, but based on the clock watermark in the top left, what is shown is about 7.5h of video (maybe cut for the interesting bits/highest quality) from 0830ish to 1600ish) at a rate of roughly 20 minutes of real time per 1 second video time, as the original commenter pointed out
So dumb question, but what’s causing the gap between the plasma cloud(?) and the surface? And is that gap filled with something that is invisible?
Plasma is electrically charged, so it interacts with magnetic lines.
The sun has magnetic field lines just as the earth does. It also rotates. But- since it's not solid, it doesn't have to rotate all at the same speed. The plasma in fast-rotating regions drags the field lines further than the plasma in slow rotating areas, creating weird loops, breaks and reconnections in the field lines. I'm almost certain that what we're seeing in this lovely bit of photography is a cloud of plasma travelling across, or trapped by one of those rogue field lines which has been pushed upwards from the surface by differential rotation.
This image is cool as fuck. No! Wait. This image is hot as fuck.
It's both!
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Absolutely amazing that you could capture that with “amateur” equipment, although it is clear from your post that a lot went into this. Bravo!
fuckin love the fediverse
God damned KDE devs at it again /s
If the earth to scale is accurate, the drops coming to the surface might be approximately close to the land mass of a large continent.
Space is fuckin big man
Amazing capture! Easily one of the best I've ever seen.
That is mezmerizing. Is there any way to know how big this thing is?
See Banana Earth for scale, top left?
Totally missed that. Thx.
That thing is massive!
It’s like raiiiiiiiaaaaaiiiiiiiin…
Cool shot!
Another cloud free day in Scotland let me catch almost 9 hours of this huge and lively prom.
As soon as I read the word "Scotland", my brain went back and revised this to be read in Scott Manley's voice.
Thanks, now mine did too
This is beautiful
How are you using Gimp with this?
I'm assuming, like the other response said, overlay graphics, but also possibly to animate it.
Probably for making the static overlay graphics, and possibly the clock hands.
I need details on how you homemade some stuff.
Thanks. That looks like some serious work, although very detailed.
So beautiful!
Nah, that is just my girlfriend taking a shower.
What a hottie.
What does this mean for ham radio?
It could be sun birds.
looks like a creature.
i d like one a little slower , here i just blink and one hour passes.. mesmerising !
Yum!
is this rain? Does the sun have a plasma cycle that could affect wattage that hits earth?