SUNSET: 
0
Photographer:
George-Hripcsak
Location of Photo:
Manhattan, New York
Date/Time of photo:
8:37am on November 2, 2023
Equipment:
50mm homemade coronagraph and ASI1600MM Pro camera
Description:
This actual image was taken with a homemade 50mm coronagraph from West 34th Street and 12th Avenue in Manhattan. It was taken at 5303 Angstroms, which shows the E-corona in the Fe XIV line. This is a single 500 millisecond exposure. The Sun rose behind the top floor of the Empire State Building from my viewing spot. The 102nd floor observation deck’s plate glass windows refracted light to a bright spot on the right side of the photo. The solar corona is shown around the artificial eclipse produced by a cone in the coronagraph; the cone shows up as a black disk in the photo. Coronal streamers are seen around the black disc, similar to a total solar eclipse. The photo of the Empire State Building to the right was taken about a half hour earlier, and the circle shows where the coronagraph was pointing. The Empire State Building just missed the 1925 total solar eclipse, being 60 blocks south of totality and being built six years too late. The next total solar eclipse over New York City is not for a while, but with an amateur coronagraph, the corona is still visible over it. This photo also demonstrates that non-eclipse coronal viewing is within reach of amateurs even from a sea-level coastal city.
Website:
https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/898111-solar-corona-behind-empire-state-building/
