Awesome Sun Photos From His Backyard By Alan Friedman

Friedman uses a telescope he calls “Little Big Man.” The stargazer sets up the telescope for high-magnification shooting. A camera replaces the eyepiece of the telescope. Bing Quock, assistant director of the Morrison Planetarium at the California Academy of Sciences, is a fan. In an email to Yahoo News, Quock called his work “superb,” adding, “His photos are creative, artistic, and absolutely gorgeous…it’s amazing how much detail is contained in each one.” (©Alan Friedman/avertedimagination.com)

Alan Friedman, an amateur photographer, took pictures of the Sun from his backyard  in Buffalo, New York.

The pictures were taken using a camera at the eyepiece of his telescope.

He called his telescope “Little Big Man.”

It is so awesome how he could get such beautiful pictures from his backyard.

By the way, here are more photos of the Sun by Alan Friedman ….

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A close-up reveals more details of a solar eruption. (©Alan Friedman/avertedimagination.com)

From the webcam, the photographer reviews the images frame by frame. “The high-quality frames are selected and then averaged to form the raw material for my photographs.” (©Alan Friedman/avertedimagination.com)

The 58-year-old details how he captures the sun with amateur equipment. “Using a small telescope and narrow band filters, I can capture details in high resolution and record movements in the solar atmosphere that change over hours and sometimes minutes.” (©Alan Friedman/avertedimagination.com)

In his artist statement, Friedman explains, “My photographs comprise a solar diary, portraits of a moment in the life of our local star.” (©Alan Friedman/avertedimagination.com)

Alan Friedman, a greeting card publisher whose hobbies include photography and astronomy, snapped the photos of the sun using a telescope with a filter and an industrial-grade webcam. (©Alan Friedman/avertedimagination.com)

Friedman uses a telescope he calls “Little Big Man.” The stargazer sets up the telescope for high-magnification shooting. A camera replaces the eyepiece of the telescope. Bing Quock, assistant director of the Morrison Planetarium at the California Academy of Sciences, is a fan. In an email to Yahoo News, Quock called his work “superb,” adding, “His photos are creative, artistic, and absolutely gorgeous…it’s amazing how much detail is contained in each one.” (©Alan Friedman/avertedimagination.com)