Photos by Alan Friedman of the sun Friedman lives in a suburb of a fairly large city (Buffalo, NY), where the city makes it inaccessible to the illumination of observing distant galaxies and nebulae. That's why he focused his research on objects in the Solar System - Moon, planets and, of course, Sun. I must say that very often succeed him very beautiful pictures showing the Sun in a new light. Beautiful and unusual images of the sun it gets through a special filter that blocks all light except for a narrow strip of dark red, which emits intense hot hydrogen. Until recently, such filters have been available only to professionals.
This is a picture of our day-lights came on page Bad Astronomy, magazines Discover, Wired, was published on the websites of many newspapers around the world. One of the latest pictures of the Sun, Alan received. In this photo captures the remarkable prominence dragon, which is visible on the left. Quiet Sun August 14, 2009. Time of large spots. October 30, 2003 at the Sun was so spots that some groups could be observed with the naked eye lights before entering the International Space Station docked with the space shuttle "Discovery" flies over the disk of the sun. Photo taken June 16, 2011. To get pictures of ISS, Alan had to go over 50 miles from his home in Buffalo area Lindonvillya what is on the shores of Lake Ontario.March 3, 2011 from the surface of the Sun came off a massive formation, which was visible in the light of alpha-hydrogen in a few hours before it dissipated into space. Alan Etihneskolkih hours sufficed to capture the spectacle in all its glory. Quiet Sun in the light of H-Alpha "Little Big Man" - this refers to its 90-mm telescope Alan Friedman. With this as the author is sure, the smallest telescope on Earth, working in a range of H-alpha, and he gets his phenomenal shots.
