How do scientists take pictures of the sun without damaging the equipment?
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Many different ways.  Camera obscura.  High density filters.  Extremely fast exposures, etc.
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A lot.  Only 1% or less of the light actually makes the image.  This is why digital photography is so much better when it comes to astronomy.
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The hubble telescope it up above all the atmospheric disturbance, allowing for much higher quality photos.\n\nFor the same reason stars twinkle, land based telescopes have a limited resolution power, after a certain size, it doesnt really help any (unless you want to build a complicated atmospheric correction machine to adjust the mirror to compensate).
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The sun 'burns' hydrogen and turns it into helium and lots and lots of light and heat and other kinds of radiation. It's a giant unshielded nuclear fusion reactor, and it's only 93,000,000 miles away...don't forget your sunscreen.
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I can think of 2 possibilities.  One is when they use an occulting disk to block out the Sun (because it is so bright), so you see a black disk, and then you can see the space around the Sun.  They do that to look at the atmosphere around the Sun.  Take a look at the first link below.\n\nThe other possible answer is that the photographs are not taken in normal visible light but some other wavelength.  in the second link, there is a picture where the Sun's 'normal' surface looks dark.  The caption helps explain it.
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Physics and specially optics, tell you how to take better pictures with every kind of camera there is!  Go to the link below for a special physics course designed for photographers.\nstacks.iop.org/0031-9120/25/348
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There may be satellite photos available.
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You could also take photos of objects that would get radiant heat from the sun, versus other heat sources.You could do a stufy with animals and tie it to metabollic uses. reptiles vs mammals.\n\nIf it is a video camera you could do a number of studies with exercise and muscle blood flow.
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Its kind of hard to take pictures of something that isnt there.
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You need a parabolic 5-inch reflector which you can get from headlight (but not a sealed beam) or a large flashlight. Or you can use a 5-inch convex lens like the ones used for close-up work (try a hobby shop). You will also need a very small source of light. A flashlight bulb should do. The light source should be positioned at the focal point of the reflector or lens. Since the lens/reflector will not be perfect and the light source will not be a true point, the beam will not be perfectly parallel.\nThe sun IS a near-perfect parallel light source in the context of a 5-inch viewing field. Maybe that's what you meant. I can't see it being used by your construction.
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There are lots of spectacular still images of meteor showers (just do a google Image search "meteor shower").  \n\nShooting stars (meteors) are, of course, very hard to capture on video because you have to be pointing the camera in the right direction, and because video cameras are not designed to capture such small amounts of light.\n\nBut here's a video that showed on Australian news:\nhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3671895688125716111&q=shooting+star&hl=en\n\nAnd here's a fantastic *daylight* meteor in the Arizona desert.\nhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2680041612603684620&q=shooting+star&hl=en\n\nAnd here's one over Stonehenge (just a glimpse of the shooting star ... but hey, it's Stonehenge):\nhttp://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&lr=&newwindow=1&safe=off&q=shooting%20star&btnG=Search&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=iv
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The sun is not a planet.
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The most likely way is to have some sort of atmospheric distortion.  For example followin a volcanic eruption in Mexico, the sun appeared to be green due to the amount of dust and ash that was put up into the air.
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The sun is actually made up of hydrogen gas. The "burning" you speak of is the fusion of hydrogen in to helium, which emits extreme amounts of light and energy.
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the above one of solar cell is gr8\nor you can make a model of a wind mill, attach it to a motor and then, artificially, rotate it to produce current in the motor and connect it to a small bulb to show it lighting
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Not exactly sure what you mean here. I'll assume that since it's in the astronomy section the instrument you refer to is a telescope. If the atmosphere is very turbulent you are going to get poor performance, ie it's going to be hard to focus on anything and the image is going to jump around in your field of view a bit. This can be caused be heat that is rising at night after a warm day. \nIf you are observing planets then a mild haze might not be that bad. However if it is hazy or foggy and you are trying to observe other things then this will be a problem, especially if the moon is up because the haze will defract the moonlight over a large part of the sky.
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solar rays could do that