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Астронет: Астрономическая картинка дня Венера сквозь капли воды http://variable-stars.ru/db/msg/1375048/eng |
Credit & Copyright: John Bell
Explanation:
Now
the brilliant "star" in planet Earth's evening skies,
Venus is captured in this
creative astrophotograph.
Taken with a close-focusing lens on January 18 from
Milton Keynes, UK, it shows multiple images of the sky above the western
horizon shortly after sunset.
The images were created by water drops on a glass pane fixed to a tree.
Surface
tension has drawn the water drops into
simple lens-like shapes.
Refracting
light, the drops create images that are upside-down,
so the scene has been rotated to allow comfortable right-side up
viewing of a
macro-multiple-skyscape.
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Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings,
and Disclaimers
NASA Official: Jay Norris.
Specific
rights apply.
A service of:
LHEA at
NASA /
GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.