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Fact Check: Edited Image of Sun and Moon in the Same Frame Viral with False Claim

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An image is being shared on social media showing both the Sun and Moon through a tree. The post claims that a German photographer waited 62 days with 16 cameras to capture this moment.

The image is being shared with a caption: 16 कैमरों वाले इस शॉट को लेने के लिए एक जर्मन फोटोग्राफर को 62 दिनों तक इंतजार करना पड़ा। स्क्रीन को टच करें और आप चंद्रमा और सूर्य को एक साथ देख सकते हैं। इसे केवल वर्ष 2035 में फिर से देखा जा सकेगा। धन गुरु नानक वाहेगुरु (English translation: A German photographer had to wait 62 days to take this shot with 16 cameras. Touch the screen and you can see the Sun and Moon together. It will be seen again only in the year 2035. Dhan Guru Nanak Waheguru)

Here’s the link to the above post.

FACT CHECK

NewsMobile fact-checked the post, and found it to be false.

On putting the image through Reverse Image Search, we found the original picture on Wikimedia, dated September 2012.

We found the original picture on Flicker and found that it was clicked by Bess Hamiti.

And Hamiti had uploaded the viral picture on his Facebook page in 2012.

We also found a video by Hamiti, dated Oct 2012, on how he created the following picture using photoshop software.

This proves that the viral picture was digitally created.

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