Day 35-Back of the Sun

By Jim Dennewill | Posted on April 1, 2006

Here’s a shot I took with my Nikon D200 & Nikon 15000mm Super-telephoto. I was lucky enough to have been able to attach my camera and lens to the side of a Saturn V booster rocket just as it was leaving Cape Canaveral.

The booster was headed around the sun, so I set the shutter-timer to snap the here-to-fore unseen back of the sun. The shutter speed was 1/1,000,000th of a millisecond at f200.

No additional processing or Photoshopping was done to this image.

back of the sun

Happy April 1st!

About Jim Dennewill

A Southern California native, Jim Dennewell has had a fascination with photography since elementary school. Weaned on his family's old Kodak Brownie cameras (you know, the ones where everything moves backwards in the viewfinder), Jim has fostered his love for the art and tech of photography over the years. Originally known here as "Slightly Out of Focus," Jim is one of our favorite authors.

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It’s a little grainy, no?


Comment by John Koontz on April 1st, 2006 at 8:32 pm

Hey, I’d like to see you take a picture from 1.52 x 10\8 kilometers away and see how much atmospheric disturbance you get….picky, picky, picky…


Comment by JimmyD on April 1st, 2006 at 9:09 pm

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