PARTIAL SOLAR ECLIPSE Oct 23, 2014

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Posted: 10/21/2014 12:19:31 PM EDT

PARTIAL SOLAR ECLIPSE: This Thursday Oct. 23rd, the Moon will pass in front of the sun, off center, producing a partial solar eclipse visible from almost all of North America. Get the full story from Science@NASA.

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Sunset Solar Eclipse

Posted: 10/21/2014 12:21:41 PM EDT

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Huh. Somehow I missed this. Thank you!

Posted: 10/21/2014 12:24:36 PM EDT

[#2]

Thanks.

Posted: 10/21/2014 12:27:39 PM EDT

[#3]

Awesome, thanks for posting

Posted: 10/21/2014 12:38:37 PM EDT

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I'm in new england, apparently we wont be able to see it.

Posted: 10/21/2014 12:40:36 PM EDT

[#5]

Awesome.

I'll be at work where I'm surrounded on all sides by Windows

Posted: 10/21/2014 12:55:13 PM EDT

[#6]

cool

Posted: 10/21/2014 1:02:33 PM EDT

[#7]

Thanks!

Posted: 10/23/2014 5:03:03 PM EDT

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IN! I just got my telescope dialed in.
I'm using a Parks Jovian 90 telescope - A typical 90 mm Maksutov-Cassegrain optical tube but armored, "waterproof," and nitrogen filled; with an Orion 4.1" solar filter. Canon EOS Rebel T2i is attached, ISO and exposure set. With the f/13.3 scope and filter, ISO 800 at 1/250 second seems about right. I may try a lower ISO setting and increase the exposure but my mount is pretty shaky. Training it on the Sun and focusing are not easy.
I have a clear sky. Because of my longitude the Sun is very high in the sky. East coasters should be able to get some dramatic sunset imagery.

Posted: 10/23/2014 5:19:00 PM EDT

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Bump 'cause IT'S HAPPENING!

Posted: 10/23/2014 5:32:45 PM EDT

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The clouds are finally clearing up near the horizon, but unfortunately, we won't get to see most of the eclipse, because it will be below the horizon by the time it gets really good.

Posted: 10/23/2014 5:34:16 PM EDT

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I am still waiting here in South Texas.

FYI if you have two floppy 3.5 disks stack them and use the internal media as a filter.

Posted: 10/23/2014 5:34:58 PM EDT

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cloudy and rain here. Not going to see shit.

Posted: 10/23/2014 5:39:40 PM EDT

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Looks like it's time to make a pinhole projection viewer

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Posted: 10/23/2014 8:00:06 PM EDT

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Higher resolution version with levels adjusted a bit. Try zooming in on this. The big sunspots look kind of cool.

Posted: 10/23/2014 8:02:04 PM EDT

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Was excited to see this then solid overcast this afternoon.

Posted: 10/23/2014 8:04:50 PM EDT

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And you can see the coronal ejection in the center of the sun ( that dark spot ). I was able to see it with a welding helmet.

Posted: 10/23/2014 8:07:02 PM EDT

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And you can see the coronal ejection in the center of the sun ( that dark spot ). I was able to see it with a welding helmet.

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And you can see the coronal ejection in the center of the sun ( that dark spot ). I was able to see it with a welding helmet.

Try refreshing. I just replaced that with a better one. I need to spend some time picking and Photoshopping before I have a really good collection. I have next to zero experience with solar photography.

Posted: 10/23/2014 8:51:31 PM EDT

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Here's a couple images I took with my Olympic digital SLR with a 300mm lens. I wish I had gotten some material to make a filter for my telescope.

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Posted: 10/23/2014 8:55:39 PM EDT

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Here's a couple images I took with my Olympic digital SLR with a 300mm lens. I wish I had gotten some material to make a filter for my telescope.

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Orion Telescope has a line of reasonably priced solar filters in a wide range of sizes. They're glass with a stainless steel film. Can't get a good link on my phone right now.

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Posted: 10/23/2014 8:59:39 PM EDT

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And you can see the coronal ejection in the center of the sun ( that dark spot ). I was able to see it with a welding helmet.

Sunspots, not coronal ejection.

Cloudy as fuck here in the NW - we've had 2+ inches of rain in the last couple of days, and had a tornado about 20 miles north of me earlier today. It's always cloudy for eclipses around here

Posted: 10/23/2014 9:07:12 PM EDT

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Here's a couple images I took with my Olympic digital SLR with a 300mm lens. I wish I had gotten some material to make a filter for my telescope.

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Orion Telescope has a line of reasonably priced solar filters in a wide range of sizes. They're glass with a stainless steel film. Can't get a good link on my phone right now.

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I know, I used to have an off axis Lumicon filter for my 10" LX200 GPS, sold that a few years ago. Had about 10K tied up in equipment, SBIG CCD camera, filter wheel, assorted filters, lenses, etc. etc. and sold it all because I was traveling so much, got divorced and needed money.

Now I have an Orion SkyView Pro 8". For this eclipse I had 2 pairs of paper solar filter glasses that was in an Astronomy magizine from back in something like 1998 or so, I took one of the filters from one pair and made a filter cell for the camera lens.

ETA. I hope our friends further north had clear skies, from what I read it was supposed to be about 75 to 80 percent coverage in the Dakotas and Canada. I can't wait till 2017 when we will have a full eclipse in the USA. WOO HOO!!!

Posted: 10/23/2014 9:09:39 PM EDT

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I was lucky enough on the drive home to see it as a crescent setting sun through a hole in the cloud cover! Very cool!

Posted: 10/23/2014 9:10:38 PM EDT

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I saw it

Posted: 10/23/2014 9:14:09 PM EDT

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yep, watched it threw a welding helmet for a few minuets.

the sun spot was pretty easy to see. kinda awesome to confirm it was on the sun and my eyes aren't screwed.