A photographer has released a jaw-dropping timelapse video of the annular solar eclipse showing the celestial event in unprecedented detail.
The 8K video by astrophotographer Jason Kurth of the Moon blocking out the majority of the Sun was well over a year in the making and required him to buy a new computer to handle the data processing.that he flew from Florida with 200 pounds of photo gear to the centerline of the October 14 eclipse in southeast Utah where he shot over 200,000 photos.
“Timelapse adds an even bigger challenge and I had seen some bits of partial eclipse timelapses through hydrogen solar telescopes that were inspiring, but never a full annular one, so I knew I wanted to do it. “I get it a little when trying to look at a phone screen at first glance, some features are so massive they may appear static and the large prominences are many tens or a hundred times larger than Earth and can move on a timescale of days and not hours,” he says.Kurth’s setup.
Kurth adds that he put in a lot of editing work to stabilize the center of the Sun which he feels adds to the “uncanny aspect” of the timelapse. “I had to painstakingly manually correct all the drift and jitter in the video to try to keep it perfectly centered on the screen, so I guess I was successful if people are mistaking it for a single still image.”Despite some conspiracy theorists hating on his work, Kurth says the reaction has been “overwhelmingly positive” and is proud that his hard work is being recognized.
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