Setting Sun with Plane Transit
Taken by Peter Lowenstein on August 16, 2017 @
Mutare, Zimbabwe
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Very few commercial airline routes pass close to Mutare in Zimbabwe so the odds against photographing any high-flying aircraft are extremely high. This evening a distant plane producing a contrail transited the sun as it was setting behind the Christmas Pass Hills to the west of Murambi while I was taking some photographs to check if Sunspot AR2671 was visible. It appears on just three frames taken a couple of seconds apart which were used to produce the accompanying animation. The following still image shows the plane close to the center of the setting sun with three portions of complex sunspot AR2671 faintly visible near the top of the solar disk. The camera used was a Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ60 in sunset scene mode, x 90 zoom magnification and an improvised solar filter consisting of exposed x-ray film in front of the lens
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