Hey everyone,
Back in the summer of 2004 I was getting ready for the transit of Venus. I wanted to see how well my 10" Newt with a full-aperture solar filter was going to work with my point-and-shoot digital camera. I was out shortly before sunset. I was facing west, holding the big filter in front of my face and looking at the sun through it when I caught the reflection of the waxing gibbous moon (which was behind me) in the mirror-like surface of the filter. The high reflectivity and very low transmission of the filter made the Sun (transmission) and Moon (reflection) look nearly the same. And, as we all know, the two appear about the same size! I put my camera on a tripod, and holding the solar filter in front I adjusted the angle of the filter to get the Sun/Moon images near each other and snapped this photo. This is not a double exposure. Note the "mirror image" flipping of the moon!
Anyway, I thought it was cool.....
Thanks for looking.
Steve
Back in the summer of 2004 I was getting ready for the transit of Venus. I wanted to see how well my 10" Newt with a full-aperture solar filter was going to work with my point-and-shoot digital camera. I was out shortly before sunset. I was facing west, holding the big filter in front of my face and looking at the sun through it when I caught the reflection of the waxing gibbous moon (which was behind me) in the mirror-like surface of the filter. The high reflectivity and very low transmission of the filter made the Sun (transmission) and Moon (reflection) look nearly the same. And, as we all know, the two appear about the same size! I put my camera on a tripod, and holding the solar filter in front I adjusted the angle of the filter to get the Sun/Moon images near each other and snapped this photo. This is not a double exposure. Note the "mirror image" flipping of the moon!
Anyway, I thought it was cool.....
Thanks for looking.
Steve
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