Solar eclipse

[KathyNS]

This eclipse was annular, with a track starting in northern Ontario, heading up into the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, over northern Greenland, and the North Pole. Here in Nova Scotia, it was a deep partial eclipse, with the Sun already eclipsed at sunrise.

Image 1:
Sunrise.
Canon 350D, modified
18mm-55mm lens, at 55mm.
No filter (should have used one!)
ISO 400, f/7.1, 1/2000s

Colour corrected by unlinked STF. To bring out the sun's disk, I extracted the blue channel (the least over-exposed), darkened it down to get a pleasing contrast, then dropped it as a luminance layer onto the RGB image.

Image 2:
10 minutes after maximum.
Panasonic Lumix DMC-T25, handheld
cheap cardboard-mounted solar filter, handheld
ISO 400, f/4.9, 1/4s

[messier 111]

very nice shots Kathy , thx .

[Ylem]

Beautiful

[Bigzmey]

Nice shots Kathy!

[Lady Fraktor]

Very nice Kathy. Great you could see it.

[Makuser]

Hello Kathy. A superb capture of the solar eclipse from you. To get any better view, you would have to be on a boat in the Bering Sea. Thanks for sharing this great work with us Kathy, and the kindest of regards.

[MistrBadgr]

I am thinking that image can help explain to people the difference in the position of the Moon around its orbit. Your image indicates to me better a transiting Moon that shows to be smaller than the sun's disk than a centered black disk in the middle of the solar disk, which could be a picture of a lot of things. Trees in the foreground also lend a sense of reality.

Thanks for sharing!

[KathyNS]

I am thinking that image can help explain to people the difference in the position of the Moon around its orbit. Your image indicates to me better a transiting Moon that shows to be smaller than the sun's disk than a centered black disk in the middle of the solar disk, which could be a picture of a lot of things. Trees in the foreground also lend a sense of reality.

Thanks for sharing!

Indeed. The difference in relative sizes of the Sun and Moon was quite apparent, even without optical aids. I mentioned it to my wife, who was observing naked-eye with just a hand-held eclipse-viewing filter, and she saw it right away.

What was interesting, too, was the reduction in light level. The daylight was pale and weak, even though the sky was essentially cloudless.