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Astrophoto: Full Solar Halo and a Dragonfly
Tuesday, September 17, 2013 7:03
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A full solar halo — plus a dragonfly — seen above John Chumack’s observatory dome on September 15, 2013. Credit and copyright: John Chumack/Galactic Images.
A beautiful atmospheric effect wasn’t the only thing hovering above John Chumack’s observatory dome this weekend. A dragonfly flits over John’s observatory in Dayton, Ohio, joining a spectacular solar halo, a ring around the Sun created by ice crystals in Earth’s atmosphere. John used a simple point & shoot Canon XS 160 camera to capture the scene.
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