The weather is always fine in Southern Spain...except during eclipse days! I had to drive a lot trying to find clear skies, finally the sky was covered with thick high clouds but I got the ISS passing in front of the Moon during the eclipse!
It was overcast in Germany, Niederkrüchten so we could see the eclipse only for seconds.
The image shows the the eclipsed sun in approx. maximum phase on the sky and on the display of the DSLR.
Image of the sun in maximum phase (approx. 78%). DSLR, 800mm focal length.
Measurement of the Sky-Brightness using an SQM (SkyQualityMeter) which was modified by Neutral Density Filters to be usable in daylight.
At 10:36 CET the maximum phase is clearly shown in the light intensity.
Re: Submissions gallery: Solar Eclipse March 2015
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2015 4:09 pm
by owlice
Eclipse flight
Copyright: Paul Hombach
Total eclipse at 78° north latitude
Copyright: Jay Pasachoff, Marcos Peñaloza-Murillo, Allison L. Carter, Ronald Dantowitz, Vojtech Rusin, Aristeidis Voulgaris, John Seiradakis, Michael Kentrianakis, Michael Zeiler
Partial eclipse from Belfast
Copyright: Rob Cheesman
Total eclipse from Longyearbyen, Svalbard
Copyright: Stan Honda
Solar eclipse, 63 % max, from southern Poland
Copyright: Jakub Porąbka
Solar Eclipse Sequence from Longyearbyen
Copyright: Chen Jiajun
On March 20, the Moon's umbral shadow tracked across Longyearbyen, Svalbard. A series of exposures follows the progress of the total solar eclipse in this composite image. From the beginning to the end, the eclipse lasted more than 2 hours, the sun barely rised, but parallel to the horizon , slowly moving westward, because Longyearbyen is within the Arctic Circle. At the total phase, lasting about 2 and half minutes for that location, an otherwise faint solar corona shimmers around the eclipsed disk.
Here at Hamburg-Altona, Germany, fog moved in shortly before maximum eclipse, but I managed to acquire some images of the eclipse using a PST H-alpha telescope and a DMK video camera
It is a mosaic of 2 images for the surface and another 2 ones for the prominences.
Solar Corona from Total Solar Eclipse 2015
Copyright: Zhu Huiwei
On March 20, the Moon's umbral shadow tracked across Longyearbyen, Svalbard. At the total phase, lasting about 2 and half minutes for that location, an otherwise faint solar corona shimmers around the eclipsed disk.
Partial solar eclipse in H-Alpha
The partial solar eclipse as observed from southern Italy yesterday
Time: 9:33 UT (March 20th 2015)
Location: Bari - Italy
Lunt 60HaPT+webcam Point Grey Chamaleon
We had a public event at the University Observatory, didn't even try to photograph something out of the ordinary.
Click to play embedded YouTube video.
Colorful flash spectrum at C3 from Faroe Islands
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 12:55 pm
by conemmil
We had very difficult weather in Faroe Islands but we got lucky enough to see the totality under thin clouds. It was interesting though how the clouds produced a colorful background of the Sun's flash spectrum at Third Contact.
I was amazed that the corona was still very intense and during maximum eclipse the spectroscope recorded the presence of Fe14 which means that we are still at very high solar activity.
Kind regards
Constantine Emmanouilidi
Hit by the Eclipse!
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 6:08 pm
by Till
Hit by the Eclipse!
About 70 percent of the suns surface were eclipsed in southern Germany. Many people and schools were not sure what to do and eclipse glasses were sold out. Most easy and harmless is the observation with a camera obscura. The school hall was darkened and light came in through the small holes in the window blinds. The wooden floor was covered by images of the solar sickles. A time lapse of this effect in the class room can be seen here: http://www.allthesky.de/eclipses/eclipse20mar15.html
Watch the moving solar images, their shape and the overall brightness in the room!
