I captured my friend in freefall while skydiving with a hydrogen alpha telescope, revealing the details of the solar atmosphere behind his silhouette. [OC]

by ajamesmccarthy

19 Comments

  1. SuppressiveFire on

    That’s a one in a million setup and photo, nice job! Your friend better use that pic as his profile picture for everything, it needs to be appreciated. lol

  2. There must be a behind the scenes video of this shot! If not I call fake. I would love for me to be wrong because, if real, this would be a killer shot.

  3. Forkliftsamurai- on

    That’s fucking crazy you need to make this an album cover congrats on a once in a life time photo

  4. CapSuccessful3358 on

    I want to believe this is real so fckn bad but I just dont get how you would be able to get the crispness of the sun so high, the sharpness on the diver and not have the sun blow out the light/photo on everything else. Not to mention capuring the photo as he transits the sun at hundreds mph. If its multiple photos overlayed it would make sense but a 1 photo single idk.

  5. I’ve seen this photo all over Reddit recently. Not at all upset about it. This better get the recognition it deserves

  6. Informal_Expert6516 on

    Or, I found this photo of the sun online and asked AI to paste in the silhouette of a skydiver. 

  7. SecretAgentScarn on

    I might be able to do something with printing that, if you’d be interested. PM me

  8. this is awesome! did you need to paint out the ultra light? any doctoring at all?

    awesome picture

  9. gonna_break_soon on

    This has got to be one of the most amazing photos I’ve ever seen in my life! I’m flabbergasted, I can’t think of the right words..