Astrophotographer Captures Detailed Image of Massive Sunspot Responsible for May’s Global Auroras

Proceed below the following step by step guide with astrophotographer Miguel Claro to discover just how such a stunning solar photograph was achieved.

There is a man from Lisbon, Portugal named Miguel Claro, who is a photographer, writer, and science popularizer, who took amazing pictures of the night sky. Currently, he is a European Southern Observatory Photo Ambassador, a member of The World At Night, and an official astrophotographer of the Dark Sky Alqueva Reserve with an emphasis on so-called astrophotograhic “Skyscapes” of the Earth and the cosmos in its night sky.

The picture shows the solar chromosphere in the particular day which became a history for this planet as the most ferocious geomagnetic strom in last twenty years sparked aurora boreal or, as they are also known, the northern lights all over the world except for few regions.

This photo was taken on 10/05/2024 at Dark Sky Alqueva territory, Portugal, the full disc, higher resolution image and or time lapse reveals the movement of Chromosphere and besides a gigantic prominence at the solar limb also features the giant sunspot AR3664 which was extremely active that day as we witnessed seversl eruptions, flares and CME’s.

G5 The Epic Solar Storm of 10th May 2024 from Miguel Claro on Vimeo.

The video above shows one of these minor eruptions just a few hours before the massive geomagnetic storm that sparked worldwide auroras, including northern at my location in Dark Sky Alqueva, Portugal at 38º latitude.

The aurora show was truly impressive, and I could even see fast-moving vertical bands with my naked eye beginning around 11:from 15 p. m. local time and lasting until 4:15 a. m. the following morning.

It was one of the best days ever. I could never have thought on the morning of May 10 while leaving for my work that I would soon be live capturing images from my terrace of sunspot AR3664 where charged particles of the solar wind are being sent to the earth.

But more specially, there wasn’t any way of informing to myself that in the same night in just a few short hours I’ll be collecting photons with my DSLR camera in witnessing the arrival of those charged particles from a cannibal CME that was released in the days prior.

These excited atoms in the upper atmosphere of the Earth, give us a beautiful light above our observatory of the northern lights in addition to the wonderful lake in the Dark Sky Alqueva region in Portugal. As much as I en using this, I can expressed how lucky I was to be part of this generation! The final outcome is a 4K high resolution solar moves for approximately 2 hours of photos and 349.

Source:SpaceCom

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