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Credit & Copyright: David Cortner
Explanation:
The rare
transit of Venus across the face of the Sun earlier this
month was one of the better-photographed events in sky history.
Both scientific and artistic images have been flooding in from the areas that could see the transit: Europe
and much of Asia, Africa, and North America.
Scientifically, solar photographers confirmed that the
black drop effect
is really better related
to the viewing clarity of the camera or telescope than the atmosphere of Venus.
Artistically, images might be divided into several categories.
One type captures the
transit in front of a highly detailed Sun.
Another category captures a double coincidence such as both Venus and an airplane simultaneously silhouetted, or Venus and the International Space Station in low Earth orbit.
A third image type involves a fortuitous arrangement of interesting looking clouds,
as shown by example in the
above image
taken from
North Carolina,
USA.
There the distant orb of giant
Venus might have been mistaken,
at first glance, for a small but unusually circular cloud.
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Based on Astronomy Picture
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Publications with keywords: Venus - transit - Sun
Publications with words: Venus - transit - Sun
See also:
- APOD: 2024 February 19 Á Looking Sideways from the Parker Solar Probe
- Circling the Sun
- APOD: 2024 January 8 Á The Phases of Venus
- APOD: 2023 December 11 Á Solar Minimum versus Solar Maximum
- APOD: 2023 November 19 Á Space Station, Solar Prominences, Sun
- Daytime Moon Meets Morning Star
- APOD: 2023 November 14 Á Three Planets Rock