Re: Unusual Digital Photo of the sun

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> "Mike Dworetsky" <platinum198@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > > Earlier this year I was on holiday with my family in the UK.
> > > My son took the photos at the links below.
> > > They are completely unretouched or manipulated in any way.
> > > We are intrigued by the formations round the sun.
> > > You can see from the rest of the pic that the sun is probably shining
> > though
> > > light cloud.
> > > Are the fuzzy prominence-like features really just earth cloud? Or has
> my
> > > son's cheap digital camera really captured something solar?
> > >
> > > Also, he took 3 quick pictures in the space of about a minute. I took
> the
> > > sun part of each and made an animated gif to see if there was any
> motion.
> > > A link to that gif is here
> > > www.pobox791.co.nz/sun/sun.gif
> > >
> > > Is it just earth clouds passing by? The photos were taken under cloudy &
> > > windy conditions.
> > >
> >
> >
> > Even in the UK, pointing a camera at the Sun can be dangerous. I'm
> > surprised it still works. I'm pretty sure that what you are seeing is a
> > cloud formation in line with the Sun.
> >
> Yeah, clouds seems the most likely explanation. Shame.
> I'm not surprised that the camera still works ok - with no burn-in even.
> Millions of people take millions of photos directly into the sun with no bad
> effects all the time, including myself. Many years ago we were advised
> (quite rightly) not to do that, esp. with video cameras, but I think that an
> exposure of a few hundredths of a second does little harm if any.

Old style video cameras with camera tubes could be destroyed in
milliseconds by pointing them at the sun. Al Bean destroyed one, and PR
for the Apollo space missions, on Apollo 12.

Today's CCD cameras are far more robust. How many 'arty' shots do you
see on television of the sun? They don't inventory for a new camera
after taking the shot.

--

Peter
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