Doubly Partial
It would have been amazing seeing this week’s total solar eclipse from Exmouth in Western Australia. From my location on the southeast coast of Australia, though, the event was a partial eclipse, meaning the Moon’s path between the Sun and my viewing position only obscured a small portion of the Sun’s disc. Unfortunately, the eclipse was partial for me in another sense. Clouds covered the sky for nearly ninety of the one hundred and twenty minutes of the eclipse.
When the clouds thinned out, I got a few images, including this one shot at the point of maximum eclipse. The clouds gave the Sun its mottled look and possibly made this a more interesting photo. In the enlarged inset, you can see the sunspot area known as AR3282, and the two large blobs at either end of this feature are about the same size as the Earth.
I’d hoped for better–and more–shots than I captured, but something’s better than nothing, right? I captured this photo with a Canon EOS 6D Mk II camera attached to my SkyWatcher 8” Dobsonian telescope—with a Thousand Oaks solar filter fitted—using an exposure time of 1/160 second @ ISO 800.
Doubly Partial
It would have been amazing seeing this week’s total solar eclipse from Exmouth in Western Australia. From my location on the southeast coast of Australia, though, the event was a partial eclipse, meaning the Moon’s path between the Sun and my viewing position only obscured a small portion of the Sun’s disc. Unfortunately, the eclipse was partial for me in another sense. Clouds covered the sky for nearly ninety of the one hundred and twenty minutes of the eclipse.
When the clouds thinned out, I got a few images, including this one shot at the point of maximum eclipse. The clouds gave the Sun its mottled look and possibly made this a more interesting photo. In the enlarged inset, you can see the sunspot area known as AR3282, and the two large blobs at either end of this feature are about the same size as the Earth.
I’d hoped for better–and more–shots than I captured, but something’s better than nothing, right? I captured this photo with a Canon EOS 6D Mk II camera attached to my SkyWatcher 8” Dobsonian telescope—with a Thousand Oaks solar filter fitted—using an exposure time of 1/160 second @ ISO 800.