But What IS A Lens Flare?

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But What IS A Lens Flare? with tags physics, minutephysics, science

A lot of people took pictures of the recent solar eclipse in North America and got photos where there’s a ghostly image of the eclipse floating in the sky nowhere near where the sun is!

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From the Series of Articles on Lens Names: Tessar, by H. H. Nasse. Carl Zeiss Camera Lens Division March 2011

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