One strange occurrence you can witness during a planetary transit is the teardrop effect. This occurs when Earth's atmosphere distorts the transiting planet during 2nd or 3rd contact to produce a teardrop shaped planet. Location: Creston Junction and I-80, WY Date: 2012-06-05 Camera: Canon XSi (modifed) Telescope: WO 110FLT Mount: GCEM Filter: Herschel Solar Wedge with 3.0 ND and Continuum Filter Shot: HDR 1x1/100th second ISO 200 1x1/1000th second ISO 200 Processing: Photoshop, Topaz
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Location: Fort Collins, CO Date: 2012-07-13 Camera: Canon XSi (modified) Telescope: WO 110FLT Attachments: Televue 2x Powermate Filters: Herschel Solar Wedge Version P with ND 3.0 and Continuum Filter Mount: CGEM Shot: 2-Panel Stacked Mosaic Frame 1: Best 759 out of 2192 images Frame 2: Best 731 out of 2099 images Both Frames: 1/1000th second ISO 100 at ~20fps Processing: EOS Movie Maker, Registax, PTGui, Photoshop, Topaz
