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Original – Limb darkening refers to the diminishing of intensity in the image of a star as one moves from the center of the image to the edge or "limb" of the image. The image was taken during 2012 Transit of Venus.
Reason
Encyclopedic, high quality.It is also a good image to demonstrate Transit of Venus photographed from Earth using white light filter. It is easy to compare size of Venus to size od sunspots. Nominated below NASA image of transit of Venus does not show limb darkening.
Articles in which this image appears
Limb darkening
FP category for this image
[Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Looking out
Creator
mbz1

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 22:09, 9 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]