🌞 Prepare to be mesmerized as Aditya-L1, India's remarkable space mission, captures a breathtaking selfie and stunning images of our home planet Earth and the serene Moon! 🚀
ISRO's Aditya-L1 is on a mission like no other, headed for the Sun-Earth L1 point to study the Sun. But it's also treating us to a spectacular visual treat along the way.
I showed 300 people the Moon covering the Sun with two of my telescopes, a 6" Dobsonian with a 5" Baader Astrosolar white light filter (which is the only 'true color' white solar filter on the market) to show the white-hot 'surface' of the Sun, as well as sunspots, and even in the latter half of the eclipse we could see the silhouettes of mountains on the Moon; and a 40mm Coronado PST which is tuned to Hydrogen Alpha to show the 'atmosphere' of the Sun, including a few prominences (eruptions)
And I turned my hair into a 'telescope' (really a set of pinhole projectors). Look for the little white crescents in the shadow--those are images of the Sun!
gosh there was this one woman, early on in the eclipse viewing session before the eclipse began, who saw me talking about the features already visible on the Sun and she said something like
"Normally, you're Just A Nerd. But now, you're a Superhero."
and i was like
"idk if i'm ever 'just' a nerd."