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I work as a graduate SW engineer at Andor, which produced the SCMOS camera they used to capture the images (https://andor.oxinst.com/balor-scmos https://andor.o

• joshspankit 7y ago
  If you don’t mind the curiosity: These images seem to have a sort of “enhanced blurring” and depth-flattening reminiscent of early 3d ultrasounds. Am I interpreting that right? Or is the surface of the sun really like that?
  • minimalc 7y ago
    You'd have to ask a solar physicist about those solar structures I'm afraid or an optical expert about the image properties, I just work with camera software. If you haven't already you can download their press release which goes into a bit more detail than the main article [1]. I've also found some interesting bonus footage of the camera in a test setup for those that are curious (the actuating gray box in the background) [2] [1] https://www.nso.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/MediaKit.zip https://www.nso.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/MediaKit.zip (1.25GB) [2] https://www.nso.edu/telescopes/dkist/image17/ https://www.nso.edu/telescopes/dkist/image17/