Wallpaper author:
Mark Johnston
07 Jun 2025
Sunspots with plasma bridge May 8 2023
Sunspots with plasma light bridge. This photo taken just before an APOD-winning closeup of the large sunspot group.
Used a herschel wedge and a Player one 10nm 540nm photosphere filter
Dataset includes original SER, raw TIFF, final jpg
Exceptionally good seeing, 5/5
Dataset from which the image was processed
Sunspots with plasma bridge May 8 2023
7 credit
- Type of target............................................................................................................................Sun
- Camera............................................................................................................................Player One Apollo-M IMX174M with cooler
- Target coordinates............................................................................................................................RA 0 Dec 0
- Hemisphere............................................................................................................................Northern
- Telescope location............................................................................................................................United States of America
- Transient event............................................................................................................................Yes
- Observed on............................................................................................................................07 May 2023 - 08 May 2023
Filter | Avg Exp (s) | Total Exposure | Subframes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luminance | 1 | 30m | 2000 |