BackyardastrophotographerAndrew McCarthyis always challenging himself, whether it’s capturing theISS transittingor creatinghigh-definition photos of the Moon.
This time, he assembled a powerful telescope that has allowed him to photograph the Sun with incredible detail.
This includes spicules, or plasma jets, that flare up from the Sun.
This allowed him to safely take images of the Sun and obtain incredible quality.
Surprisingly, it only took about 20 to 30 minutes to capture all 100,000 still photos.
That is because McCarthy was shooting at high framerates that allowed for batches of 3,000 photos at a time.
Once the shoot was complete, McCarthy went to work to process the photos.
Once that was complete, McCarthy used special software that stacked the sharpest frames.
This resulted in 50 stacked and sharpened images that he imported into Photoshop and composited into the finished image.
The result is a highly polished photograph that even took McCarthy by surprise.
