Partial Solar Eclipse

[Chrissyo]

Time for my attempt at the partial eclipse from yesterday.

I was really very lucky, there was only one large cloud that ruined about 5-10minutes of the eclipse, so I got most of it on camera. Literally 20 minutes after the eclipse finished, the sky turned black, the wind picked up and we had a storm! Our yard flooded over in 15 minutes. Talk about super lucky timing!:D

It was so strange seeing a big chunk missing in the Sun. Hard to believe that was caused by the Moon, which is normally such a familiar sight. It was also darn cool that you could see the roughness of the Moon - the craters - around the 'chunk'. So neat. I'll have to make sure I see a total solar eclipse sometime during my life. :D

Anyway, a grouped a few of the images I took together and attached them below. They're not super fantastic, and they're not properly aligned/rotated or anything. I'll work on them some more later.

I took them with my 10" Newtonian (on my dob mount, for ease) with my 400D. I used just a boring old solar filter, no detail on the Sun.

[citivolus]

Nice series, you did a good job. The original images may show some of the limited solar detail if you stretch the histogram, but there is too much compression in this version of the image for me to recover any detail. Which solar filter were you using?

Regards,
Eric

[Dennis]

A very nice portfolio showing excellent technique in acquiring and focusing the images so well with an un-driven DOB. I takes me hat off to you!

Cheers

Dennis

[caleb]

just a question, if i was outside and there was a TOTAL solar eclipse would it go realy dark?

[edwardsdj]

Great images Chrissyo :)

Glad you got to see the event before the rain set in.

[Outbackmanyep]

Yes it would, one thing i know a lot of people have told me is that it can also get cold during totality. I can't wait till 2012!!!!