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Low Altitude Sun Artificial Horizon Exercise
From: Greg Rudzinski
Date: 2020 Nov 29, 08:50 -0800
From: Greg Rudzinski
Date: 2020 Nov 29, 08:50 -0800
This exercise is to show how a plastic digital caliper can accurately measure any low altitude Sun image using the horizontal diameter as the yard stick.
Image #0759
UT 22:16:31 28 November 2020
Lat. 27° 41.7' N Lon. 80° 23.9' W (GPS)
Diameter of Sun 32.434'
What is the azimuth and intercept from GPS ?
Greg Rudzinski
The image is using a 135mm vintage lens on a Canon 2000D (24MP). Settings: 1/4000sec, ISO 100, f 16. Sun filtered with double polarizers.
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