Solar Eclipse VIDEO: Cory Poole's Time-Lapse Shows Sun In HD

This time-lapse video of Sunday’s solar eclipse highlights the Sun’s outer layers.

The photographer Cory Poole constructed the video by pasting together 700 photographs taken with a Coronado Solar Max 60 Double Stack telescope. According to Jason Kottke, Poole used a filter that only allows light from hydrogen atoms moving from the 2nd excited state to the 1st excited state. This allows Poole to highlight the chromosphere, the Sun’s lower atmosphere.

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[ProudToBeVeryLiberal]

08:04 PM on 05/21/2012

The video is cool, but the music sounds like the soundtrack from a cheesy horror B-movie.

[JackTheSkipper]

06:38 PM on 05/21/2012

I saw the Islamic crescent twice during the eclipse in that video. The God has spoken. He is a Muslim!

[bungerman]

07:06 PM on 05/21/2012

I saw the Sun disappearing and then it resurrected! Surely he is christian!

[Opus Fideo]

02:03 AM on 05/22/2012

I saw a dragon eating the sun, so I banged on some pots and yelled at the sky and it scared it away, so now we have our sun back!.

[BluePhantom2]

06:24 PM on 05/21/2012

That is very cool, thanks!

[scarfoot]

05:25 PM on 05/21/2012

This image, judging by the position of the sunspot,s is left to right reversed compared to my photographs and visual observation in Albuquerque.

[jacob dixon 2500]

04:55 PM on 05/21/2012

awsome i love science

[bluelyne]

05:54 PM on 05/21/2012

I live in Las Vegas and saw this through a piece of xray film at work we held up. Awesome. Never saw one before.

[Kevin Mills]

04:32 PM on 05/21/2012

Once upon a time there was light in my life. But now there's only love in the dark.

[CaroleK1970]

04:47 PM on 05/21/2012

turn on your heart-light, let it shine wherever you go

[Kevin Mills]

05:01 PM on 05/21/2012

HAHAHAHA
Before the rising sun we fly, So many roads to choose, We start our walking and learn to run.