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Last year’s solar eclipse seen from Los Angeles. I was waaaay out of the viewing area for yesterday’s eclipse seen across Australia and the Pacific Ocean, but I got to see a really good partial eclipse last year. More photos and commentary about the experience on my blog.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap121210.html
Time lapse video of last month's solar eclipse, showing the moon's shadow sweeping across the sky.
Eclipse Scope Eyepiece on Flickr.
Looking at Sunday’s solar eclipse through a filtered telescope.
» More photos & writeup at my main blog.
Sun viewed through eclipse glasses on Flickr.
Of the various ways I looked at the solar eclipse, my favorite was a set of “eclipse glasses” made from exposed photographic film. Everything else felt like I was looking at a picture of the sun, rather than watching something here and how, except for this and the welding helmet. And the welding helmet turned everything green.
After looking at the sun for a few seconds through the glasses, I stuck one in front of the camera and took this shot.
Eclipse just past greatest coverage. It’s still bright out, but noticeably dimmer than this time yesterday. Filtered scope. Best thing about coming up here it’s all the people with different viewing setups.
Aaand Facebook Mobile never actually posted my status from the middle of the eclipse. I was hoping to copy+paste that into my full blog post.
Shotwell is getting more annoying all the time. For example: it assumes you're importing from a pure camera, so if you plug in, say, a smartphone, it offers to import every single image on the device. Including your web browser cache. That's helpful.
But the latest: It strips out timezone data?!?! I uploaded a whole batch of eclipse photos dated tomorrow. At least Flickr lets me fix it with two clicks for the whole set.
Clouds are rising, but still well below the sun. Can't see Catalina anymore.
Eclipse watch: Clouds started rolling in toward the west, so I headed up into the hills. There's a ton of people up here! Now as long as the wind doesn't blow my pinhole camera over the cliff…