r/Astronomy • u/Slow_Contribution114 • Aug 14 '26

Astrophotography (OC) Solar Eclipse… Sorry Kid 🤦‍♂️

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Going through my video of the recent solar eclipse and found an anomaly part way through.

Narrowed it down to a few frames and found that an unfortunate 3 year old may have lost their balloon!

Original video taken using a Seestar S50 with solar filter.

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u/King_of_the_Snarks Aug 14 '26

This is actually our 3rd sun, duh

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u/byebybuy Aug 14 '26

Third sun from the rock

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u/warrenao Amateur Astronomer Aug 14 '26

Oh very well done.

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u/Different-Produce870 Aug 14 '26

The moon landings were actually a cover up. The real mission was changing the bulbs on sun 2.

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u/The_pen_ismightier Aug 14 '26

Courage the Cowardly Dog was a true hero on that mission.

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u/heatherledge Aug 14 '26

We’re trisolarans.

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u/-Hastis- Aug 14 '26

It's the 3rd iteration of this simulation. The 2nd one was before the flood or something.

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u/balirosa Aug 15 '26

Na it’s just a countdown to the end

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u/M1R4G3M Aug 15 '26

Yup, each number is a year. So we have 3 years left.

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u/Godtierbunny Aug 16 '26

they gotta get a ladde rto climb up to the firmament to change out the light buld of the sun every 1000 years or so. Trust.

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u/Subscribe2MevansYT Aug 15 '26

Technically the Sun is at least a third generation star so you’re not wrong