Remarkable eclipse photo
Posted by Steve Hull on Tuesday 11 January 2011 at 2:21pm
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Sometimes taking just one photo requires a tremendous amount of preparation and perspiration.
A lot of people who have seen this photo may not realise what was involved in taking it. The International Space Station moves quite quickly across the sky, crossing the face of the sun in 0.86 seconds. Our intrepid photographer calculated both when and where (just outside Muscat in Oman) to take the photo, then, having determined the best exposure, opened his camera's shutter for 1/5000 of a second at the exact moment in the exact location to get this image. As Dwight Eisenhower said, "Plans are nothing; planning is everything."
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