45 days in the Sun
From January 11 to February 25 /2013, a pinhole camera sat in a field near Budapest, Hungary, planet Earth to create this intriguing solargraph. And for 45 days, an old Antonov An-2 biplane stood still while the Sun rose and set. The camera's continuous exposure began about 20 days after the northern hemispere's winter solstice, so each day the Sun's trail arcs steadily higher through the sky.
These days in the Sun were recorded on a piece of black and white photosensitive paper tucked in to the simple plastic film container. The long exposure produced a visible color image on the paper that was then digitally scanned. Of course, cloudy days left gaps in the solargraph's Sun trails.
What is solargraphy?
Solarigrafia, solarigraphy, solargraphy is a photographic method for recording the paths of the Sun. Solargraphy is the art of pinhole photography and a part of Space Art, too.
Image & info via APOD
Image Credit & Copyright: Csaba Kovács
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Good job !
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I just enjoyed an excellent documentary on the Antonov airplanes, their creator, and the amazing oversized plane they took out of mothballs to market for extreme load hauling. Antonov AN-225 is what google tells me it's called (I never remember labels.) Grounded by the end of the soviet union and retraction of it's financial muscle, the Ukrainian Antonov Bureau was scavenging the only one of it's kind, a plane so massive it defies belief. Then they smartly figured out that there's people who'd use it and pay handsomely to use it, and dragged it out of the field and refurbished it. They're working on marketing it now, since getting contracts for something so rare can take awhile. But if you're building wind generators in the arctic, this plane can get your parts there!
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