[Leica] Fun with eclipses

[drodgers at casefarms.com (David Rodgers)]

Unfortunately, it has a caption. We therefore must mark it down a few
points, bringing to just short of spectacular. :-)

-----Original Message-----
From: Klein, Peter A [mailto:kleinp@BATTELLE.ORG] 
Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 12:08 PM
To: lug@leica-users.org
Subject: [Leica] Fun with eclipses

Today's "Astronomy Picture of the Day" is spectacular.  It's a digital
composite of many different timed exposures that capture the brightness
range of the solar corona during the recent eclipse in Turkey.  If it
had been taken with film, they wouldn't have needed so many exposures.
If it had been taken with a Leica M, they would have burned a hole in
the shutter during setup.  :-)  It's a fantastic picture anyway.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

Bigger version picture, and the link will work after today (Friday):
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0604/tse2006_03_29corona_vangorp_
f1800.jpg

Now for the fun.  Aaron Sandler take note:  This is the ultimate economy
pinhole camera.  Go here, then scroll down to "Sans instrument, jeux de
mains "
http://vjac.free.fr/eclipses/290306.html

If I had a gig as a priest in ancient Egypt, I could get a lot of
mileage out of that one.  :-)

Some others:
http://photoastronomique.net/voir_us.php?taille=grand&nom=060329_2941
http://photoastronomique.net/voir_us.php?taille=grand&nom=060329_5258 

--Peter