This week's collaboration with Cellar Image of the Day brings us this amazing picture of a solar eclipse in 2006:
This photo was taken last year by Miloslav Druckmuller and Peter Aniol from the Libyan desert. It is a composite of 231 photos taken with a battery of 5 cameras on a variety of telescopic lenses ranging in focal lengths from 200mm to 1680mm.
The multiple shots were necessary to catch different aspects of the eclipse that one shot could not. One camera's exposure must be set to capture the face of the moon. Another must be set for the coronal rays, one to capture stars….etc etc.
Notice how far the coronal rays flare out!!
This small picture really doesn't do it justice: to see how amazing the pic really is, go to Cellar Image of the Day: Link.
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Here it is:
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=VKEPPw5Jd2M
I'd love to try the stuff just to say I had, but the quality of the liquor is I'm sure absolute crap.
The REALLY fowl stuff (pun intended) is some nordic or icelandic or inuit cultures (apologies, I don't remember which) actually put birds into bottles. That's very dangerous - much higher likelihood of contamination. The other animals aren't really that big of a deal.
It is absolutely foul by the way!!
http://www.plan-b.in/22-February-06.81.0.html
I had some of the stuff, a friend has a neighbor that is from Vietnam, he had a few bottles of it. They poured the shot before I got to see the bottle, it was pretty potent stuff.