The Eclipse Through An AMAZING Camera
This week, we all saw images on television screens of the solar eclipse that occurred on Wednesday. This was the longest eclipse the earth will see until 2136, which will likely be beyond most of our own lifetimes… unless my Fish Oil and CoQ10 work as I hope (!!!). I digress. When looking at the images at the NASA webpage, some are amazing, especially the one below. “Hinode is an international mission to study our nearest star, the sun. To accomplish this, the Hinode mission includes a suite of three science instruments — the Solar Optical Telescope, X-ray Telescope and Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer.
Together, these instruments will study the generation, transport, and dissipation of magnetic energy from the photosphere to the corona and will record how energy stored in the sun’s magnetic field is released, either gradually or violently, as the field rises into the sun’s outer atmosphere.” – NASA
So as the moon passed between the earth and sun, most of the zoomed in images you have seen don’t have this kind of detail. This is truly my favorite picture of this event. When we see images like this, it reminds us how much detail remains in the universe that this amazing technology is seeing.
Brad Huffines, Chief Meteorologist / Storm Force 31
