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Old 04-02-2007, 11:48 AM   #1
Undertoad
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April 2, 2007: Composite image of eclipse



It's Neatorama collaboration Monday!



And it's another wide one.

This from Clodfobble, who says "This was sent to me by a colleague who is way into his amateur
telescope hobby. The picture's a year old but I hadn't seen it before and his explanation of the
focal lengths was really interesting to me."

The explanation from Clod's colleague:
Quote:
This photo was taken last year by Miloslav Druckmuller and Peter Aniol from the Libyan desert.
It is a composite of 231 photos taken with a battery of 5 cameras on a variety of telescopic lenses
ranging in focal lengths from 200mm to 1680mm.

The multiple shots were necessary to catch different aspects of the eclipse that one shot could
not. One camera's exposure must be set to capture the face of the moon. Another must be set for
the coronal rays, one to capture stars, .etc etc.

Notice how far the coronal rays flare out!!
Remember to check out our friends at Neatorama for more neato stuff all the time!

(Hey, quick note for folks looking to link to us: it's better for IotD if you link to the blog view version.
Not only are there adwords on that version, but loading that version causes fewer database lookups, and
thus doesn't slow down our precious forum. Thx! Preciate it!)
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