Famous astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy made a new “portrait” of the Sun. The image resolution is
The photo is very detailed.It shows a group of sunspots facing the Earth. As the author of the photo writes, this took him “many hours.” For the job, he used a modified telescope.
Yesterday I spent hours capturing this:an intricately detailed photo of the sun shot using a specially modified telescope. Here it is in the full 164 Megapixels, so you can zoom into every nitty gritty detail. That sunspot group on the top is currently pointed right at Earth! pic.twitter.com/P0RfLHwDfd
— Andrew McCarthy (@AJamesMcCarthy) December 23, 2022
“Yesterday I spent several hours trying tocapture an intricately detailed photo of the sun, captured using a specially modified telescope. Here it is in full 164 megapixel resolution, so you can see every little detail. A group of sunspots is currently pointing directly at the Earth!” writes the author.
The full resolution picture can be viewed at the link.
Andrew McCarthy
Andrew McCarthy is not a professional photographer; Heworks in sales and business operations for a software company. His astrophotography is a hobby he does in his backyard in Sacramento, California.
Despite this, many of his photographs becameviral. Previously, Hi-Tech showed beautiful images of a massive plume of plasma shooting out from the Sun and Mars, emerging from behind the Moon after an eclipse. He also told how McCarthy took a photograph of Jupiter from 600,000 photographs.
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