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Taken many years ago from our then family home at Marino, a south western beachside suburb of Adelaide.
From the archive, original on colour positive 35 mm film using a Milolta SRT 101 with a 400 mm lens (250 mm DSLR equivalent) scanned from the negative. Yes, we had heat waves even in the days of film.
Sunset, Marino, Adelaide, South Australia
2024 Total Solar Eclipse. Composition to reveal the structure of the inner "flower petals" and outer "streamers" of the Sun's Corona during the total eclipse.
ASI2600mc
ASTRO-TECH AT65EDQ
420mm focal length, 1.5x crop factor of Aps-C sensor.
Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro mount
Pixinsignt and Photoshop.
4/8/24 Poplar Buff, Missouri
As I mentioned before there is a lot of rubbish getting washed up on Dubai’s beaches and yesterday evening I found yet again an unusual item lying in the sand. This time it was a long, thin light bulb that looked like it was out at sea for a long time. Solar power? Not quite, but the sun sure looks nice through the glass…
To view the blog entry go to: www.momentaryawe.com/blog/?p=822
Here in California the hummers re-energize by capturing the solar power directly to the wings.......
sabattier/solarization - kodak brownie hawkeye flash - 22 year old Tmax that expired in 1998 - flipped lens - developed in HC-110 dilution B - Ilford multigrade rc paper.
The brightness of the total eclipse varies over 5 orders of magnitude, from bright, hot pink solar prominences to the outer corona. This is a 1/8000 exposure showing the prominences; the corona is only hinted at by the difference between the true black of the lunar disk and the off-black of the surrounding sky.
We reserved a room in Plattsburgh, NY about a year ago (Vermont was already fully booked, but Plattsburgh had plenty of rooms and no bump in prices yet). The morning of the eclipse dawned clear, but clouds were predicted to gather by afternoon, so we chased blue skies about 3 hours northeast to the southern outskirts of Sherbrooke, QC and had perfect weather. (Fortunately, I had insisted to my husband that we bring passports.) The Canadian customs website said there was a 40-minute wait at the entry station on the freeway, so we nipped over to the side road a few miles east and had the port of entry all to ourselves.
The total eclipse was … hard to describe, but all it’s cracked up to be — a striking spectacle. The inner corona was much brighter than I expected, blazing to the naked eye in sharp contrast to the suddenly black sun within.
This morning's partial solar eclipse photographed from my back garden in Carmarthen, Wales (when clouds got out the way!)
A solar eclipse is one of nature's grandest spectacles. It occurs when the Moon blocks any part of the Sun. On Monday, August 21, 2017, a solar eclipse was visible across all of North America. The whole continent experienced a partial eclipse lasting two to three hours. Halfway through the event, anyone within a roughly 70 mile-wide path from Oregon to South Carolina experienced a brief total eclipse, when the Moon completely blocked the Sun's bright face for up to 2 minutes and forty seconds, turning day into night and making visible the otherwide hidden solar corona....the Sun's outer atmosphere....one of nature's most awesome sights.
This shot of a partial eclipse was taken outside of the 70 mile-wide "path of totality". Though, in this area of northern California, the maximum coverage was 75%.....at the time this photo was taken, the moon had covered only around 25%.
A neighborhood youngster photographs the solar eclipse using his tablet. The telescope / box projector worked out fairly well.
This radio lives in the window so that it will be charged when the power goes out and we need it. (We can re-charge it with a hand crank if needed, but solar power is easier!)
Our Daily Challenge: ON THE WINDOWSILL
Solar farms are cropping up all around North Carolina. If you have available land, companies will lease your land for a solar farm. This is one of three fields converted into solar farms situated close together.
This series was taken on May 10 & May 12, 2024, in
Cook County, Illinois, USA.
The large, dark cluster of sunspots, captured in all of these images, AR3664, is the largest sunspot in twenty years, and is sixteen times the size of the earth and is currently responsible for all of the aurora activity that can be seen in places around the globe.
AR3664 will be visible again in about two weeks.
I set up a chair on my front lawn to view the sunspot activity.
On May 10th, there were significant clouds, with breaks where the sun was fully visible.
On May 12th, the sky was clear.
All photos were taken with a Canon EOS 5D Mark IV and a Canon Zoom Lens EF100-400mm 1: 4.5.- 5.6 L IS
Ultrasonic and a Canon Extender EF 2x III.
Handheld and focused. Manual settings.
I wore protective eyewear and used a "white light" lens filter-77-T by Thousand Oaks Optical of Kingman, Arizona. This type of filter is used to detect sunspots and granulation. It protects the lens, camera and eyes from permanent damage that would occur from looking directly at the sun.
It took 10 years to create this image of our changing Sun. Taken from space by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), it shows a dramatically different picture than the one we receive on Earth.
From Earth’s surface, we are treated to a biased view. Every day our world is bathed in the Sun’s light and heat, and at these visible and infrared wavelengths our luminary shines to within a fraction of a percent of the same energy every day.
At ultraviolet and X-ray wavelengths, this is not true. Launched in 1995, SOHO has been continuously monitoring the Sun since then, in part to study this variation. Back in 2006, one image for each year of the mission until then was chosen and displayed in this montage.
The bright parts of these images correspond to gas in the Sun’s atmosphere at a temperature of about 2 million degrees Celsius.
Unlike visible light, the intensity of the ultraviolet radiation from the Sun varies greatly. This variation becomes more pronounced the shorter the wavelength, especially in the X-ray region of the spectrum. This is governed by solar activity, which runs in an approximately 11-year cycle. It is linked to the generation of the Sun’s magnetic field although our precise understanding of this mechanism remains elusive.
The waxing and waning of cycle-23, counted since 1755 when systematic record-taking began, can be seen clearly in this image. At its peak in 2001, the Sun was a maelstrom of activity, releasing about 10 times more ultraviolet light than at the minimum periods that can be seen in 1996 and 2006.
Now in cycle-24, the Sun is again at a peak of activity, although it is milder than that of 2001.
This image was originally published at the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory website: sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/gallery/images/cycle001.html
Credit: SOHO (ESA & NASA)
Solar Halo taken from Warren Folkestone Kent.
Halo is the name for a family of optical phenomena produced by light interacting with ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere. Halos can have many forms, ranging from colored or white rings to arcs and spots in the sky.
Solar can 6 month exposure. Taken on photographic film in a pin hole camera. Shows the suns path over 6 months
85% Solar Eclipse viewed from Abingdon, UK on Friday 20th March 2015.
This was photographed with my 10" Dobsonian telescope and a Pentax K5 IIs.
Halloween 2003 will live forever in the annals of solar history. In the space of two weeks centred around the spooky celebration, solar physicists witnessed the most sustained bout of solar activity since satellites took to the skies.
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) was monitoring it all. The ultraviolet telescope captured the climax of activity on 4 November 2003, showing a blistering solar flare bursting from active region 10486 at 19:29 GMT. Solar flares are the near-instantaneous release of energy caused by a loop of magnetism snapping into a more stable configuration.
In this process, the energy of up to a thousand billion Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs can be released in just a few minutes. That release is seen here. The horizontal white streak is where the camera has been blinded by the brightness of the flare.
Things began when a giant sunspot, fully ten times the diameter of Earth, hove into view around the western limb of the Sun in late October. It was followed by another, equally large, spot and together they moved across the face of the Sun generating flares on an almost daily basis. This image shows the second spot’s parting volley.
Solar flares are classed according to the energy they release at X-ray wavelengths. There are three major categories: C, M and X, further divided into 10 subclasses. M1 flares are ten times more powerful than C1, and X1 flares are ten times more powerful than M1 flares, or 100 times more powerful than C1.
This 2003 flare was so powerful that it broke right through the top of the X-class range, which is usually given as X10. Analysis showed that it clocked in at X28, making it 28 times more powerful than an X1.
A billion tonnes or so of the solar atmosphere was propelled into space at a speed of 2300 km/s – a staggering 8.2 million km/h.
Credit: ESA/NASA
Ravioli A Beans truly “reaching for the stars” today on the back of the couch. I love being warm so much. I couldn’t possibly relate more to my sweet cats. Just charging our batteries in the sun.
I think it was cool that some friends went to see the arrival of the Solar Impulse 2 plane in Honolulu. It seems as if it will be here for a while due to battery problems after the 118 hour flight. Alas, the closest I got was this model in the window of the Waikiki Omega watches store.
Height 235mm. Copper wire (30swg 0.315mm), 16x BPW-34 Siemens Osram 1/8"² solar cells, Philips 74HC240N octal buffer IC, electrolytic capacitors (gold 3.3F 2.5V, aluminium 1000µF 6.3V), ceramic capacitors, resistors, low voltage schottky diode, orange LED. Collects and stores solar energy during the day, emits controlled pulses of light at night. Pulse frequency: 0.2Hz