I somehow got the idea in my head that this would not be observable at all from this far south! If I'd have done my research I'd have applied for a day of leave from work for the day and got the camera out. Bugger!
These are a few of my nicer looking photos. Taken with a galaxy S3 pointing down the eyepiece (20mm for the wide shot, 10mm for the narrow shot) of my Celestron Astromaster 130 with a baader solar filter.
As I am in Canberra, we only got about 25% coverage maximum, but still quite obvious through eclipse goggles (and from shadows cast by what few of out trees still had leaves).
We parked 10 km south of Musgrave (FNQ) and got clear skies, saw the 'ring of fire', then the clouds rolled in at 9am, we did goto Musgrave but there was clouds at 730 am
OK, we got clouds but I still got an image.
Through the clouds, at 1/8000 sec, ISO 50, f36 at 105mm. Crop from a converted 24 meg ARW file to jpeg.
I just swung the SONY up and took fast pics. Clouds kept it all pretty cool, no solar film or anything.
OK, we got clouds but I still got an image.
Through the clouds, at 1/8000 sec, ISO 50, f36 at 105mm. Crop from a converted 24 meg ARW file to jpeg.
I just swung the SONY up and took fast pics. Clouds kept it all pretty cool, no solar film or anything.
you need to take a flat, and a few darks to process properly
Here's a "colourful" version of this morning's partial eclipse, thanks to varying degrees of smoke & fog! And Susan, what a shot, great work! And everyone else!
Cheers -
Last edited by Rob_K; 10-05-2013 at 03:58 PM.
Reason: Pic change, thanks Andrew!
observed the eclipse from approx 15K's south of
Tennant Creek, slightly cloudy,
viewed through telescope with filter, enjoyed the view,
with the drifting clouds it was awsome,
no photo's, I'm working on that, one day,
I am enjoying your photo's though,
should have viewed the forum for prior eclipse entries,
could have done with company, shall know next time
