Shashank Dholakia
astroshashank.bsky.social
Shashank Dholakia
@astroshashank.bsky.social
Astrophysics PhD candidate at University of Queensland | UC Berkeley '21 | Exoplanets and Stars | @astrosoundbites.bsky.social co-host | Astrophotographer

shashankdholakia.github.io
More h-alpha solar timelapses. Here's a loop of plasma twisting off AR4247 from yesterday around 21:30UTC. This might have been part of a small C-class flare. I think it looks like a tornado on the Sun!

🔭 #astronomy #astrophotography
November 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
1.5 hour timelapse of the Sun in hydrogen-alpha. I set this up quite late in the day and the Sun was pretty quiet so I was surprised how much evolution is visible in the prominences, granulation and the active region. I'll have to try more of this.

Video is set to loop forwards, then in reverse

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October 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
New paper by me and @benjaminpope.bsky.social! How well can we map a star using optical interferometry?

This is just a submitted preprint at the moment--comments and questions welcome! (1/N)

arxiv.org/abs/2509.25433
October 1, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Timelapse of the altocumulus undulatus clouds over Brisbane yesterday
July 31, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Jupiter rotation timelapse with lo (and shadow) transit! Taken Feb 8th from my backyard. Went out at 5 min intervals to capture a video. From each of these, the best 10% were stacked to produce a single frame (lucky imaging).

🔭C9.25, 📷 QHYII1585C

#jupiter #astrophotography #astronomy
February 11, 2025 at 10:14 PM
C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) and the Moon rising over Brisbane. I took this timelapse on 30th September while it was still in the early morning sky, with @astroryan.bsky.social. Reposting on bluesky for all the new people here!

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November 21, 2024 at 5:55 AM