ajamesmccarthy
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A civilian transit- Our sun and a commercial airliner. Check the attachment for a video
🕑 Added 2021-01-18 05:27:31 +0000 UTCSee the video from the moment of capture in the attachments. This is our sun in hydrogen alpha light with a plane transiting the disc.
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This was shot in hydrogen-alpha light- it is heavily filtered. So when the plane isn't directly blocking the sun, there is not enough contrast between the plane and the sky to resolve it's shape. Interestingly enough, the contrail scatters the light from the sun to become visible, but not the plane!
ToastyKen
So interesting how it looks like the plane took a piece of the sun with it. Also how the shadow only shows up over the sun itself and not outside of the frame. Why is that?
