Anticipating the celestia shadow playof a solar eclipse, sky gazers across Germany watched th Sun rise on May 31.In Bonn, astrophotographerThilo Kranz had set up his small refracto telescope and cameraon the Kennedy Bridge acrossthe Rhein river to get a good view to the northeast.The timing of this eclipsemust have seemed ideal for a local balloon flight too, as hot airballoonists alsofavor early morning hours with usually calm surface winds.Kranz and colleagues had noticeda balloon drifting in the hazy sky near the horizon andspeculated about viewin theeclipse fro on board.But when the eclipsed Sun finally emerged into viewthey were delighted to see th lighter-than-aircraft make the occasion a very special show from their ownvantage point.In fact, in the central panel of this montage of Kranz'stelescopic eclipse images, the silhouetted balloon remindsthe APOD editors of a remarkably well-fed exclamation mark!
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