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![AJamesMcCarthy Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:24/cr:twitter::2492039959.png) Andrew McCarthy [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/twitter/AJamesMcCarthy) on x 411.9K followers
Created: 2025-07-18 23:52:08 UTC

This is a photo of the solar chromosphere, part if the sun’s atmosphere. It’s captured by using a telescope modified to safely view a very narrow part of the visible light spectrum without melting my camera. I wrote an article about these sun shots here: 

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