Explanation:
Waiting years and traveling kilometers -- all to get a shot like this.
And even with all of this planning, a good bit of luck was helpful.
As the Sun rose over the
Baltic Sea last Wednesday as seen from
Fehmarn Island in northern
Germany, photographer
Jens Hackmann
was ready for the very unusual black dot of Venus to appear superimposed.
Less expected
were the textures of clouds and haze that
would tint different levels of the Sun various shades of
red.
And possibly the luckiest gift of all was a flicker of a rare
green flash at the very top of the Sun.
The above image is, of course, just one of
manyspectacularpictures
taken last week of the last
transit
of the planet Venus across the face of the Sun for the next 105 years.
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