Re: Submissions Gallery: Partial Solar Eclipse 2014
Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2014 5:35 am
by jfgout
Hi everyone,
Here is my contribution for the partial solar eclipse of October 23rd, 2014. I drove from Bloomington, IN to Logan, OH, chasing the best weather forecast. But it was not enough to get a clear horizon and the sunset was obstructed by a thick layer of clouds. Here are the few pictures I managed to get before the partially eclipsed sun diapered behind the clouds.
Re: Submissions Gallery: Partial Solar Eclipse 2014
Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2014 7:00 pm
by big_lv
Pictures taken using my 10" Zhumel Dobsonian Reflector with a home-made solar filter attachment. These particular pictures were from my HTC One cell phone camera, but I was taking other pics using an Orion camera mount. I tried to flip the images in the Flickr editor, but it wouldn't save the changes, and I'm not at home to work with the others.
Copyright: Laura Vance IMAG0529 by vancelmv, on Flickr IMAG0530 by vancelmv, on Flickr
Re: Submissions Gallery: Partial Solar Eclipse 2014
Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2014 9:16 pm
by jfgout
I'm adding one image to my previous submission. It is a composite of 8 frames taken with a mylar filter + one frame taken after sunset.
The moon passed between the Earth and the sun on Thursday, Oct. 23. While avid stargazers in North America looked up to watch the spectacle, the best vantage point was several hundred miles above the North Pole.
The Hinode spacecraft was in the right place at the right time to catch the solar eclipse. What’s more, because of its vantage point Hinode witnessed a “ring of fire” or annular eclipse.
An annular eclipse occurs when the moon passes directly in front of the sun but doesn’t cover it completely because the moon appears too small. (The apparent size of the moon depends on its distance from Earth or, in this case, the spacecraft.) About one-third of all solar eclipses are annular. ...
Re: Submissions Gallery: Partial Solar Eclipse 2014
