Observation by Nick James: Polarized corona

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Nick James

Observer

Nick James

Observed

2026 Sep 13 - 15:59

Uploaded

2026 Sep 13 - 16:04

Objects

The Sun

Equipment

redhat51 + Lucid PHX050S1-PC

Exposure

100 x 50ms

Location

La Revilla, Spain

Target name

Sun

Title

Polarized corona

About this image

As I reported here I used a polarization sensitive camera to record the corona during the August 12 eclipse. The corona is strongly polarized tangential to the limb. With the camera I was using it is possible to synthesise tangential and radial linear polarization filters for each pixel. This animation shows the tangential and radial polarization images. The corona is considerably brighter and has more contrast in the tangential image compared to the radial one.

Files associated with this observation

tse_20260812_182940_ndj.gif (2.7 MB)

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