Staring at the sun: Backyard astronomer captures the beauty of the solar system using only a webcam and a home telescope

Staring at the sun: Backyard astronomer captures the beauty of the solar system using only a webcam and a home telescopeStaring at the sun: Backyard astronomer captures the beauty of the solar system using only a webcam and a home telescopeStaring at the sun: Backyard astronomer captures the beauty of the solar system using only a webcam and a home telescopeStaring at the sun: Backyard astronomer captures the beauty of the solar system using only a webcam and a home telescopeStaring at the sun: Backyard astronomer captures the beauty of the solar system using only a webcam and a home telescopeStaring at the sun: Backyard astronomer captures the beauty of the solar system using only a webcam and a home telescopeStaring at the sun: Backyard astronomer captures the beauty of the solar system using only a webcam and a home telescopeStaring at the sun: Backyard astronomer captures the beauty of the solar system using only a webcam and a home telescopeStaring at the sun: Backyard astronomer captures the beauty of the solar system using only a webcam and a home telescopeStaring at the sun: Backyard astronomer captures the beauty of the solar system using only a webcam and a home telescopeStaring at the sun: Backyard astronomer captures the beauty of the solar system using only a webcam and a home telescopeStaring at the sun: Backyard astronomer captures the beauty of the solar system using only a webcam and a home telescope
These highly detailed photographs of the sun and solar system are not the latest offerings from the multi-million dollar Hubble Space Telescope - they were in fact taken from a Buffalo, New York backyard using a $5,000 telescope.

Produced by graphic artist and amateur astronomer Alan Friedman using his telescope named "Little Big Man", the impressive images of our nearest celestial neighbours are recorded onto a simple webcam before individual frames are selected.

Revealing the beauty of our solar system, Freidman uses a specialised filter that is able to look at the deep red end of the light spectrum to capture his pictures, which have become massively popular online and have drawn praise from NASA.

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