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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
DSO AP:Orion 200mm f/4 Newtonian Astrograph; ATIK 383L+; EFW2 filter wheel; Astrodon Ha,Oiii,LRGB filters; KWIQ/QHY5 guide scope; Planetary AP:Celestron C-11; ZWO ASI120MC; Portable: Celestron C-8 on HEQ5 pro; C-90 on wedge; 20x80 binos; Etc: Canon 350D; Various EPs, etc. Obs: 8' Exploradome; iOptron CEM60 (pier); Helena Observatory (H2O)Astrobin
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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.
Marshall
Sky-Watcher 90mm f/13.8 Maksutov-Cassegrain on motorized Multimount
Orion Astroview 120ST f/5 Refractor on EQ3 mount
Celestron Comet Catcher 140mm f/3.64 Schmidt-Newtonian on alt-az mount
Celestron Omni XLT150R f/5 Refractor on CG4 mount with dual axis drives.
Orion 180mm f/15 Maksutov-Cassegrain on CG5-GT Goto mount.
Orion XT12i 12" f/4.9 Dobsonian Intelliscope.
Kamakura 7x35 Binoculars and Celestron SkyMaster 15x70 Binoculars. ZWO ASI 120MC camera.
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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!
Bill Steen
Many small scopes, plus a Lightbridge 12, LX 70-8R,6R,6M
Many eyepieces, just not really expensive ones.
MistrBadgr wrote: ↑Thu Jun 10, 2021 9:37 pm
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.
DSO AP:Orion 200mm f/4 Newtonian Astrograph; ATIK 383L+; EFW2 filter wheel; Astrodon Ha,Oiii,LRGB filters; KWIQ/QHY5 guide scope; Planetary AP:Celestron C-11; ZWO ASI120MC; Portable: Celestron C-8 on HEQ5 pro; C-90 on wedge; 20x80 binos; Etc: Canon 350D; Various EPs, etc. Obs: 8' Exploradome; iOptron CEM60 (pier); Helena Observatory (H2O)Astrobin