September 12, 2017
The universe has spent billions of years making things that shine. On your birthday, we celebrate one of its quieter masterpieces.
A Total Solar Eclipse Close-Up in Real Time
Birthday · September 12, 2017
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APOD published September 12, 2017 · Video still. Credit: Jun Ho Oh (KAIST, HuboLab); Music: Flowing Air by Mattia Vlad Morleo. A publication-date match, not a photo taken on your date. Independent of NASA.
How would you feel if the Sun disappeared? Many eclipse watchers across the USA surprised themselves with the awe that they felt and the exclamations that they made as the Sun momentarily disappeared behind the Moon. Perhaps expecting just a brief moment of dusk, the spectacle of unusually rapid darkness, breathtakingly bright glowing beads around the Moon's edge, shockingly pink solar prominences, and a strangely detailed corona stretching across the sky caught many a curmudgeon by surprise. Many of these attributes were captured in the featured real-time, three-minute video of last month's total solar eclipse. The video frames were acquired in Warm Springs, Oregon with equipment specifically designed by Jun Ho Oh to track a close-up of the Sun's periphery during eclipse. As the video ends, the Sun is seen being reborn on the other side of the Moon from where it departed.
Image credit: Jun Ho Oh (KAIST, HuboLab); Music: Flowing Air by Mattia Vlad Morleo