I had the day booked off of work, the weather forcast could have gone either way TBH. With clear blue sky one minute and threatening clouds the next.
So I set everything up with the plan of standing out in the rain with a brolley over the scope if needed!
As it happened we had a few minutes every now and then where cloud got in the way but over 95% of the eclipse was clear.
So I'm suite happy.
Here are some images from the eclipse, I have 304 images to look through - but these are first contact, mid eclipse and last contact (9:34am, 10:20 and 11:06 respectivly). I thought that the eclipse started at 9:04 rom my location and I was all set up and waiting and then nothing happened. Thought that someone had nicked the moon
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I'll be working on an animation over the next few days.
First contact, at around 09:34am.
http://ukastronomers.com/ant/image/7477_normal.jpeg
Mid Eclipse at around 10:20.
http://ukastronomers.com/ant/image/7478_normal.jpeg
Last contact at around 11:06
http://ukastronomers.com/ant/image/7479_normal.jpeg
I wanted to get a littler larger image scale for the eclipse, the FOV with the 300D and the ED80 is Huge. So I added a 2" 2x barlow (lens only) which was screwed into the 2" adapter from the T ring. I guess this gave me a 1.6 increase in image scale. I then had to use the diagonal to get enough out focus.
http://ukastronomers.com/ant/image/7480_normal.jpeg
Hopefully an avid young astronomer in the making...
http://ukastronomers.com/ant/image/7481_normal.jpeg
Thanks for looking!
Ant