SOHO 5008 comet
This wide-angle image shows the solar corona and Kreutz family comet SOHO 5008 shortly before it
disintegrated near reaching perihelion. The fast movement of the comet caused that it is motion blurred
in the image of solar corona. Therefore I divided the sequence of all images into two parts and aligned the
comet on its head (small image in the frame). Different positions of the star show the shift during
171 s. The explanation of the comet's strange orange color you may find
here.
The full resolution version of this image you may download
here.
Click on the image or on the following reference to display the
higher resolution image version (9.0 MB, PNG format).
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| Image | TSE_2024_400mm_SOHO-5008_md.png |
| Date | 08. 04. 2024 |
| Time | 2nd contact 18:09:09 UT, 3rd contact 18:13:16 UT |
| Place | Durango, Mexico |
| Coordinate | N 24° 8.122', W 104° 42.367', Alt. 1940 m |
| Conditions | Clear sky, cirrus clouds during mid-eclipse
Solar altitude at mid-eclipse 70.1° above horizon |
| Optics | Nikkor 80-400mm 1:4.5-5.6G ED VR (set to FL 400 mm, F5.6) |
| Camera | Nikon Z6 |
| Exposure | 1/400 s - 3 s, ISO 100 |
| Processing | Composition of 139 eclipse images. Eclipse images were calibrated by means of dark frames and flat-fields, aligned by means of phase correlation, composed by means of LDIC 6.0 software, processed using Corona 6.0 in order to visualize coronal structures. Final processing was done using ACC 6.1 software.
Image processing by Miloslav Druckmüller
Images acquired by Andreas Möller |
| Software | Astro D3F 2.0, PhaseCorr 8.0, LDIC 6.0, Corona 6.0, Sofo ACC 6.1 |
| Orientation | Image must be rotated 26.85° counter-clockwise to achieve standard orientation i.e. solar North up. |
| Copyright | © 2024 Miloslav Druckmüller, Andreas Möller |
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Miloslav Druckmüller
Institute of Mathematics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
druckmuller@fme.vutbr.cz
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Page last update: 19.6.2024
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