#daytime astronomy

[thehikingastronomer]

How do you capture a solar flare on the Sun?

-A specially filtered lens

-A cellphone

-A cell phone holder

Here's a quick demonstration! Please don't mind the over-exposure of light when I take the phone off the telescope 😂

By visible surface area, this particular flare is about 350x the size of Earth (including the dark gaps). Just to make you feel small.

I've watched this flare for the past two days, and here's how it changed in 24 hours:

HUGE swell.

[mynodon]

Daytime Astronomy, by Peter Doig, 1997-98

[feeltheemotionallandscapes]

Peter Doig

“Daytime Astronomy”

Etching on Paper (8″ x 12″)

1997

[projectrefinedlife]

Nix Nature Center - Daytime Astronomy

Nix Nature Center – Daytime Astronomy

OC Parks – Laguna Coast Wilderness Park presents: Daytime Astronomy at the Nix Nature Center on Saturday, August 9th, 2014

image courtesy of lagunacanyon.org

Come to Nix Nature Center between 1:00 – 4:00 pm and be an astronomy in the daytime…How does that work? Get ready to look out into the heavens in the daytime and explore the the Sun. Amateur astronomers will bring their telescopes and solar…

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