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An Eclipse Megamovie Megastar

Nasmus Nazir's High Dynamic Range image, created with processed photographs of the Sun's corona taken during the total solare eclipse on April 8th, 2024.
Credits: Naztronomy, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Nazmus “Naz” Nasir is a software engineer by day, and an astrophotographer by night….and sometimes by day as well! This April, Naz participated in NASA’s Eclipse Megamovie 2024 project, photographing the total solar eclipse. He created a spectacular video composed of stabilized and aligned photographs of the sun taken during totality.

“I have had an interest in astronomy since childhood,” says Naz. “Until recently, I was unable to pursue my dreams of being an astronomer. But now, I have my own telescope which allows me to view the heavens like never before.”

We hope you’ll share your eclipse photographs and videos like Naz has done. Eclipse Megamovie will be accepting photographs from the April 8th solar eclipse again in June, so if you have a photograph of the eclipse, please send it in! Your images will help us investigate the secret lives of solar jets and plasma plumes.

Credits: Nazmus “Naz” Nasir
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Jul 23, 2024
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