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So... my horoscope said: "That moment when the Sun is eclipsed will be your moment of introspection as you prepare for a big change. Once that passes, prepare to be amazed. This is a time of letting that light shine, and figuring out where you really belong, and who you belong to. Hint: You belong to the ones that make you feel like you shine in their world.
The New Moon and solar eclipse in Fixed Fire Sign Leo is all about being ready for the big change that is coming. You can′t stop it from happening. And it′s nothing to fear. That′s because this one, like every other transit, is all about ensuring your success. It′s your time to shine, baby! Expect the unexpected. Make those New Moon wishes count. This one could be the biggest new beginning of your life."
Ok, yes, please. I am ready for the biggest new beginning of my life. I am ready to be amazed. Today was one bad thing after another (well ...except for the eclipse... I did get to see it and I did have solar glasses, so I still have my eyesight... all good!) Other than that...everything sucked and yesterday was pretty much the same. So ... bring it on.... amaze me!! PLeeeeZe!!!
(I brought my camera, but had no intention of trying to photograph the eclipse... I can't even get a shot of the moon...so I decided I would leave that to the experts... and better photographers. This is an iPhone photo from Jenny Jump State Park's observatory... where volunteers let you look through solar eclipse binoculars and telescopes. It was an awesome place to be... the only bright spot in the day (even with the sun being eclipsed!!) ; )
Extreme overexposure on FP4. This was shot at f/16 for either two or four seconds. I've done this with a pinhole camera, but never with a real lens.
I used photoshop to bring out contrasts and get rid of a couple of dust specks, but the solarization effect is real.
Next time, I'm going to try cutting the normal development time in half.
Well yes there is a Solar Eclipse happening. No, not just the Rock hiding the sun, but the moon hiding the sun too which cant be seen in this length/exposure. This is a blend of two exposures shot from another camera (Canon 5D3+EF24-70mm F2.8LII) during Solar Eclipse at Fossil Dunes, Al Wathba, Abu Dhabi. This is how the Fossil Dunes look compared to the silhouette in previous photos.
I'm excited to announce the release of my first ebook "A Return to Iceland" which contains over 60 unreleased images from a two week trip to Iceland last summer. This image graces the cover page and is perhaps my favorite aerial images from the the trip. "A Return to Iceland" is free for everyone on my mailing list. If you'd like to receive a copy follow the link below to sign up. Cheers and I sincerely hope you enjoy the ebook!
Taken at 1:13pm, the 50% maximum coverage we got here. I shot this through a lens from a pair of eclipse glasses on my 300mm lens. I made a lens hood out of black poster board and attached the lens. Small compared to the front of the lens, but when zoomed at 300mm, you aren't seeing through the whole front glass.
Yesterday's practice shot was taken with my dad's old 30 year old 400mm Sigma lens through three sheets of mylar emergency space blanket. It worked, but made the sun blue so I had to fake the color. I found that lens is pretty low contrast so the 100mm extra reach it gave me didn't improve the image even today when I used eclipse glasses on both cameras. I only tried the space blanket because my earlier attempts at using glasses had terrible light leaks and made me think it was too small.
My original plan was to shoot it just using that old lens on a camera I got at the pawn shop for $89 (I wanted the lens it had). But things were seeming safe so I decided to shoot with two cameras.
My expensive camera finally overheated at the end and was causing some very scary errors. I thought I killed it. It was getting close to 100 degrees F in the shade by the time the eclipse was over. I should have known a black camera in the sun would overheat. I often covered the lens when not shooting, but didn't think of the overall temperature. After cooling down, the camera is working again. Don't know why I shot the whole thing, but I couldn't stop. ;-p
Today was the day. 20191111
Solar transit.
Short video of the capture at
Technical card
Imaging telescopes or lenses:Lunt Solar Systems LS60FHa (Double Stack), Lunt Solar Systems LS60THa/B1200C
Imaging camera:ZWO ASI174 Mini
Mount:Skywatcher AZ-GTi
Software:Emil Kraaikamp Autostackert! 3, SharpCap
Resolution: 1828x1543
Date:Nov. 11, 2019
Time: 14:00
Frames: 4000
Data source: Backyard
Built for Bio-Cup 2024 round 1
Theme: Energy
Sub-theme: Radiant
A lot of inspiration went into this design. The accessories are the result of a blend of the art style from 'The Emperor's New Groove' (of all things) and the unique sculptures of Arnaldo Pomodoro. Also very inspired by Tino Poutiainen's moc - Mictlantecuhtli.
If you're wondering about the snake piece's connection to the leg, it's secured by wrapping the chain tightly around the leg, forcing the snake's tongue towards the kneecap and locking it in place.
The cameleon pieces are attached to the neck accessory by slotting a microfig inbetween the gap of their legs and the hose pieces rest with the bar handles holding them in place.
Hope you like it!
A sunset panorama of the Solar Farm in Ivanpah California. It's a series of long exposures. The Creosote bush AKA Larrea Tridentada serves as the foreground with the Solar Farm & Mountain as the middle ground. And the sky is the background.
In May 2014 the news media claims it's the largest in the world. Nevertheless, it consists of 3 huge solar towers that collect sun rays from the several hundred thousand mirrors on the ground. The intense gamma rays vaporize any foul that come between the mirrors and the solar collector towers. Ironically it's built on the California Nevada boarder. And it sends generated electricity over a hundred miles into California. Nevada has yet to incorporate solar or wind factories even though it has more sunny days than most of the states in the South West US.
Thanks for viewing.
The total Solar eclipse was imaged on Ah Chong Island in the Montebello group in West Australia. This image is an exposure fusion of 7 one-stop images captured with a Nikon Z7II camera, Nikon 16-35 mm F lens @ 16 mm. The colors and darkness are close to my perception of the event. Jupiter is above the eclipsed Sun and Venus below just above the landscape. It was a bright eclipse and I only saw those two planets with my eye.
This won't be the best picture of the c. 90% solar eclipse which could be seen in the UK on 20 March 2015, but it was lightly raining and shortly after this photo the cloud closed over the eclipse. Still, I thought I would post it as substantial eclipses aren't visible very often from the same spot! The next total eclipse in the UK is not expected until 2090, although there might be some eclipses around 80% before then (the next one being expected in 2026).
The October 14, 2023 solar eclipse at its peak (about 68%) here in southwestern California, USA.
When I first learned about the pending eclipse, my mind began to cue up a classic Johnny Cash song (covered by Wall of Voodoo and Social Distortion, among others) and perhaps crack a pun off it, but, alas, this was not the case. (Well, at least I got to link to the songs for the benefit of those in the path of the eclipse's totality.)
I used the same sheet of solar filter material attached to a plastic drain pipe fitting also used some six years earlier.
Solar Coaster.
Solar Coaster was do just that in the November winds that had come ashore at Port Macquarie.
The sometimes strong winds provided the perfect conditions for sailors to take their yachts and spread their sails on the waters of the Hastings River.
Port Macquarie, New South Wales< Australia.
After a clear blue sky, clouds started coming in in the afternoon sky. We had solar halos for hours.
A macro shot of small solar cells on my pocket calculator. I guess that the dust gives a feeling for the size of the visible part of the solar cells.
Captured with my iPhone 8 and the "Black Eye" macro lens.
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A composite of the April 8th, 2024 solar eclipse as seen in Waterloo, Ontario.
We reached 99.2% totality. Ah well, I'll try to do better on the next total eclipse which is will be visible here in 2079 !!
Solar eclipse in Northern Norway. Didn't have any filter to use, but i thought it came out ok anyway :)
Not a fancy location, not an iconic setting. Just an awe inspiring experience, shared with the family.
This artist's concept puts solar system distances in perspective. The scale bar is in astronomical units, with each set distance beyond 1 AU representing 10 times the previous distance. One AU is the distance from the sun to the Earth, which is about 93 million miles or 150 million kilometers. Neptune, the most distant planet from the sun, is about 30 AU.
Informally, the term "solar system" is often used to mean the space out to the last planet. Scientific consensus, however, says the solar system goes out to the Oort Cloud, the source of the comets that swing by our sun on long time scales. Beyond the outer edge of the Oort Cloud, the gravity of other stars begins to dominate that of the sun.
The inner edge of the main part of the Oort Cloud could be as close as 1,000 AU from our sun. The outer edge is estimated to be around 100,000 AU.
NASA's Voyager 1, humankind's most distant spacecraft, is around 125 AU. Scientists believe it entered interstellar space, or the space between stars, on Aug. 25, 2012. Much of interstellar space is actually inside our solar system. It will take about 300 years for Voyager 1 to reach the inner edge of the Oort Cloud and possibly about 30,000 years to fly beyond it.
Alpha Centauri is currently the closest star to our solar system. But, in 40,000 years, Voyager 1 will be closer to the star AC +79 3888 than to our own sun. AC +79 3888 is actually traveling faster toward Voyager 1 than the spacecraft is traveling toward it.
The Voyager spacecraft were built and continue to be operated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, Calif. Caltech manages JPL for NASA. The Voyager missions are a part of NASA's Heliophysics System Observatory, sponsored by the Heliophysics Division of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
For more information about Voyager, visit: www.nasa.gov/voyager and voyager.jpl.nasa.gov .
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Pyramids of light beams shining through the fog and clouds and incandescent tower tops at the Ivanpah concentrated solar thermal plant give an oddly spiritual look to an otherwise industrial facility.
Goal 7 of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals is: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all. There are great parallels to be made with the International Space Station. All our energy is completely carbon free as it comes from these beautiful, large, solar panels. They have been providing all the electricity we need up here for 20 years, but we have a great advantage: no clouds, so they get the full effect of our Sun. However half of our 90-minute orbit around is in the shadow of Earth, so batteries take over for 45 minutes to keep the electricity flowing, and they are recharged when we fly back into sunlight. As energy up here is a limited resource, a list exists where each facility is placed in order of priority. Representatives from the five space agencies that run the International Space Station work together to make the list so if ever power dips the top-priority facilities continue to run. I hear that the discussions around this can be quite lively as nobody wants their facility turned off, but for over 20 years researchers and mission designers have worked it out together and energy is continued to be produced and distributed. Like many things on the Space Station this is a nice example of what needs to be done on Earth, but obviously on a much larger scale and nobody is saying it is easy. Meanwhile after 20 years of service, the solar panels are getting ready for an upgrade with spacewalks planned to install new ones in the Summer. We need to safeguard our future energy to make it sustainable and continuous, just like on Earth.
Le 7e des Objectifs de développement durable de l'ONU : assurer l'accès pour tous à une énergie abordable, fiable, et durable. On peut faire plusieurs parallèles avec la Station spatiale internationale. Notre énergie est décarbonée car solaire: on voit assez nos immenses panneaux J. Ils fournissent toute l'électricité nécessaire ici depuis 20 ans, mais nous avons un gros avantage : l'absence de nuages :sunglass: Ils profitent pleinement du soleil, même si, à cause de sa trajectoire autour de la Terre, la Station spatiale passe constamment de l’ombre (côté non éclairé de la terre) à la lumière (côté éclairé).. d’où harge et décharge de grandes batteries extérieures. L'énergie étant une ressource limitée ici, les 5 agences spatiales qui gèrent la Station travaillent ensemble pour la gérer. En cas de problème électrique, il faut des priorités claires. En tout cas pendant plus de 20 ans, les chercheurs et les ingénieurs ont trouvé des solutions ensemble et l'énergie continue d'être produite et distribuée. Comme souvent sur l’ISS, c’est un bel exemple de ce qui doit être fait sur Terre, à plus grande echelle – c’est évidement beaucoup lpus difficile. Après des années de bons et loyaux services, les panneaux solaires donnent des signes de fatigue et des sorties extravéhiculaires sont prévues pour en installer de nouveaux au mois de juin. Ici aussi, on se creuse la tête pour render notre énergie plus durable.
Credits: ESA/NAS–T. Pesquet
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Stitching 6 images together of the total solar eclipse on 8/21/17. It was a bluebird day east of Unity, Oregon.
The upper one of a pair of new, solar active regions that just rotated into view of SDO offered a beautiful profile view of cascading loops spiraling above it (Jan. 15-16, 2012) following a solar flare eruption. These loop structures are made of superheated plasma, just one of which is the size of several Earths. With its ability to capture the Sun in amazing detail, SDO observed it all in extreme ultraviolet light.
Credit: NASA/GSFC/SDO
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While East Texas wasn't in the path of totality for yesterday's Great American Solar Eclipse, the experience was still quite fantastic. With multiple telescopes running, I had one dedicated to gathering images over certain time intervals. With this, I put together a collage of the eclipsing from beginning to end. My location reached the eclipse factor maximum at 79%, which was more than I had ever witnessed previously! Enjoy!
Image Details:
Celestron Advanced VX 8 Reflector
Nikon D3100
Orion Solar Film Filter
9 Frames at 1/20th sec.
ISO 800
Processed in Lightroom and Photoshop CC
April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse. Taken part way through totality – high thin clouds subdued the view of the solar corona, but may have enhanced other features such as the large prominence which was visible to the naked eye.
Solar Tree, Milano, Piazza Gae Aulenti, Porta Nuova.
Solar Tree: designer Ross Lovegrove, produced by Artemide
Piazza Gae aulenti: Architect Cesar Pelli
Nikon D90, Samyang fisheye 8mm.
HDR, 3 jpg shots, +/-2EV,
Photomatix 4, Topaz Denoise, Topaz Adjust, Photoshop CS5
A picture of our Sun shot in Hydrogen Alpha. This partial capture of the Solar disc has been inverted and false coloured and shows close up detail of an active region in the chromosphere.
This was captured on 20th May, 2020 from my backyard in the UK.
Equipment used :
Sky-watcher 120mm Evostar Achro
Daystar Quark Chromosphere Ha Eyepiece
Point Grey Blackfly mono CMOS