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Photo taken of January 24, 1925 totality from Bronx Park, NYC, by Adolf Fassbender.
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I traveled to Mexico in 1991 to see this total eclipse- 7 minutes of totality! We were on a mountain top at Xochicalco, about 45 minutes west of Cuernavaca, south of Mexico City. We were very lucky to see the entire eclipse, relatively unobscured. About 20k people showed up, including El Presidente himself. This was taken on Kodak Ektar film, ASA 25.
This is the famous "diamond ring" effect that you get for a few seconds when the sun first reappears.
This trip was a long time in the making. I was comitted to viewing the 2024 eclipse immediately after viewing the 2017-08-21 total eclipse. Most of the nearly seven years between the two eclipses consisted of waiting for the next one. Just before arriving at the one year mark before this eclipse, I got Doug on board for an eclipse trip and began planning in earnest.
For this eclipse trip, I had a two-pronged, weather-dependent plan. Depending upon which weather forecast looked most promising, we would travel to either western Ohio (preferred) or northeast Texas. After arriving at one of those two destinations, we would further assess the weather the evening before and either veiw the eclipse from that location, or move along the path of totality to get to clearer skies, if needed, on eclipse day.
Exactly a year before the eclipse, we mounted a scouting expedition in the western Ohio/eastern Indiana region to decide on a campground from which we hoped to view the eclipse. Wildcat Woods Campground in Ohio was our base for this expedition. We looked at a couple of other campgrounds, but ended up selecting Wildcat Woods Campground for the 2024 eclipse trip, and we made a reservation before leaving after the 2023 visit. This was the first that the campground owners knew of the eclipse.
In the last few days before we were to depart Maryland, the weather forecasts were all over the place, but the Ohio prong looked best on the day prior to departure. We towed the camper from Maryland to Wildcat Woods on April 6th.
On Sunday, the day before the eclipse, we spent the day carefully monitoring the forecasts ("perseverating" would be more accurate) expecting the various models to coverge and provide a clear prediction. They didn't converge, so the weather picuture was not very helpful. The forecast model that we decided to accept as accurate showed clouds all morning on eclipse day, and clearing out at noon with about 9% cloud cover. The regions to the west and to the east along the eclipse path did not look materially different. With no compelling reason to move to another location on eclipse day, we decided that night that we would be staying at Wildcat Woods for the eclipse.
We woke up to an unexpected crystal clear and deep blue sky on eclipse day morning. The forecast for eclipse time still looked pretty good.
At around 9am high thin clouds rolled in, and persisted through the eclipse. Even with the high thin clouds in place the clouds did not hinder eclipse viewing at all.
It would be pointless to attempt a description of the eclipse experience here, or anywhere else, because there are no adequate words available to me for this purpose.
We departed for Maryland the next morning, and by mid-afternoon we experienced about 45 minutes of traffic slow downs that were probably due to southbound eclipse traffic. These slowdowns hindered our travel from central Pennsylvania and down toward Baltimore and Washington DC.
Bailey's Beads marks the start of totality in the Solar Eclipse of 2024. The last remnants of the sun dip below the mountains and valleys of the moon's surface.
This shot is of what's left of the Sun when the Moon had nearly passed in front of it, almost completely. Note the pinkish shades all around and this created a mystical period as we mere mortals gazed in awe.
I hadn't really thought much about the eclipse to be honest until, on this sunny Friday morning in Edinburgh, the sky began to darken around 9.15am and most unusually I was at home. I noticed people gathering in the streets and everyone seemed to be chatting and becoming more enthused at the happenings as every minute passed.
Camera at the ready I decided to see for myself. Outside the light had become strange, a mystical and fantastic beauty emerged in a pink glow - the clouds around the sun were almost black and then pure white - a white I hadn't seen before - strongly potent and not for gazing at with the naked eye. The clouds however provided an opportunity for everyone to look up and take pictures.
This was the Moon passing in front of the Sun and there was nothing anybody could do about it - I love that about the weather and the Earth's natural functions. We have no power.
I hope you've enjoyed seeing my snapshots of the eclipse which were taken just for fun and without any thought whatever. Point, shoot and let the camera do the rest.
I found this which reads "Eclipse of the Sun. October 19, 1865. Photograph by (cant read) Eureka, IL. Google verifies that eclipse that day. It also features on a 2 cent stamp, which was a Union Civil War revenue stamp enacted to generate revenue for the war effort. I've enhanced the image and darkened the writing to be able to read it on the image, it's pristine in it's original state, but darker.
Taken through X-Ray plate, with Nikon D7000 using 50mm 2.8 nikon prime lens.
Unfortunately the climax..."Ring of Fire" couldn't be taken due to overcast sky. A very few snaps could be taken during the sun came out momentarily.
Solar Eclipse from Marion, Illinois on April 8th 2024, Show Baileys Beads with some very nice prominences. Taken with 132mm refractor scope from Marion, Illinois.
20th March 2015 — 09:31 hours (GMT) — Lancaster, England
(Seen through a fortunate gap in the clouds)
My first amateur eclipse photos, taken with my Soligor 400mm, whilst holding a stack of filters on the lens. Completely amateurish, but they were so fun and exciting to take!
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Solar Eclipse from Marion, Illinois on April 8th 2024, Close up showing some very nice prominences. Taken with 132mm refractor scope from Marion, Illinois.
Baily's Beads just prior to 2nd contact, north is to the right. Taken with a Sony a6300 camera with Vivitar 200mm prime lens and 2X teleconverter at 2017-08-11 17:46 UT from Torrington, Wyoming. Exposed f11 for 1/4000 sec at ISO 100. Exposure adjustment and final crop in Photoshop.
This photo was taken with THREE ND filters on it to block out the light of the sun.
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Solar Eclipse from Marion, Illinois on April 8th 2024, Showing some very nice prominences. Taken with 132mm refractor scope from Marion, Illinois.