Glass
17th February 2013, 07:02 PM
This guy takes some really details photos of the sun and other up there objects
FROM his backyard in downtown Buffalo, New York, self-titled space cowboy Alan Friedman is capturing images of the sun - 150 million kilometres away - that have spread around the world like wildfire.
http://images.theage.com.au/2013/02/17/4040327/art-353-sun-202-300x0.jpg
Mr Friedman started taking photos of the sun, the moon and the stars in the mid 1990s but his passion for solar imaging began in 2003. That's when he purchased ''a magic glass'', as he calls the hydrogen alpha filter that let him capture the loop-shaped eruptions of luminous hydrogen gas (called prominences) from the sun.
The switch to solar photography was also pragmatic. ''Buffalo is cold and cloudy, and not known as a mecca for astronomy,'' he said. ''The view from my backyard is not exactly an ideal spot. It's got telephone wires, power lines, cable TV lines and rooftops.''
http://images.theage.com.au/2013/02/17/4040325/art-353-sun-201-300x0.jpg Like wildfire ... Friedman's images of the sun have been circulated around the world. Photo: Copyright Alan Friedman, avertedimagination.com (http://www.avertedimagination.com/)
An industrial city on the edge of the Great Lakes, Buffalo gets only 60 clear days a year, he told Fairfax Media in a phone interview. And the bright city lights make it impossible to see the faint objects such as galaxies and nebulae.
http://www.avertedimagination.com/
FROM his backyard in downtown Buffalo, New York, self-titled space cowboy Alan Friedman is capturing images of the sun - 150 million kilometres away - that have spread around the world like wildfire.
http://images.theage.com.au/2013/02/17/4040327/art-353-sun-202-300x0.jpg
Mr Friedman started taking photos of the sun, the moon and the stars in the mid 1990s but his passion for solar imaging began in 2003. That's when he purchased ''a magic glass'', as he calls the hydrogen alpha filter that let him capture the loop-shaped eruptions of luminous hydrogen gas (called prominences) from the sun.
The switch to solar photography was also pragmatic. ''Buffalo is cold and cloudy, and not known as a mecca for astronomy,'' he said. ''The view from my backyard is not exactly an ideal spot. It's got telephone wires, power lines, cable TV lines and rooftops.''
http://images.theage.com.au/2013/02/17/4040325/art-353-sun-201-300x0.jpg Like wildfire ... Friedman's images of the sun have been circulated around the world. Photo: Copyright Alan Friedman, avertedimagination.com (http://www.avertedimagination.com/)
An industrial city on the edge of the Great Lakes, Buffalo gets only 60 clear days a year, he told Fairfax Media in a phone interview. And the bright city lights make it impossible to see the faint objects such as galaxies and nebulae.
http://www.avertedimagination.com/