You have probably heard about hurricane hunters, cold-blooded and passionate people who adore various storms so much so that at the risk of their lives they chase almost every one of them to find the perfect one among them. So this is nothing compared to an attempt to photograph a solar eclipse, being at an altitude of 13,411 meters on board an aircraft moving at a speed of 804 kilometers per hour.
A former photographer of the NASA aerospace agency, Ben Cooper, accompanied by several colleagues, made an attempt on November 3 to photograph a total solar eclipse while aboard a 12-seat Dassault Falcon 900B jet that took off from Bermuda.
This attempt was quite audacious, since the speed of the Moon, which was at that moment over the Atlantic Ocean, was 12,874 kilometers per hour, which left the photographer only 7 seconds to make his first-class picture of a solar eclipse at the most necessary moment.
“When you are aboard a plane moving at a speed of 804 km / h and you are trying to take a picture of the moon passing by the sun at a speed of 12,874 km / h - you have not the slightest margin for error,” says Cooper.
“This is only the second successful event in history when such a short eclipse was filmed from the board of a moving plane!” Adds the photographer.
As you can see in the above image, Cooper still failed to capture the eclipse in its fullest form. But it turned out a snapshot of the most beautiful phenomenon known as the "solar corona".
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