Stunning Sun Photos Shot by Amateur

Streaks of superheated plasma rising across the sun's surface - as seen from Wycombe

A detailed photograph of the sun with an apparent smile captured using a telescope fitted with a special filter in High Wycombe by amateur astronomer David Tyler

A side-no view of a plasma burst - known as a prominence when viewed from the side - captured in High Wycombe

It's not bad for a pictures taken in the back garden.

The sun’s fiery surface is captured in incredible detail from 93million miles away.

The stunning shot was taken by 71-year-old Dave Tyler, a photographer and amateur astronomer.


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Those are some great pictures. I mean..shoot. What kind of quality would you expect from 93million miles away? :P Things like that are pretty interesting.

chris grigg wrote:

Those are some great pictures. I mean..shoot. What kind of quality would you expect from 93million miles away? :P Things like that are pretty interesting.

Amazing to say the very least. There are probably multi million dollar telescopes that have not produced images even close to those.