2017 Eclipse Pictures

[sevenperforce]

1 hour ago, YNM said:

Like this :

I have seen this effect on at least another photo as well. This was taken during the solar eclipse last year where I live. Taken by my cousin.

The image bounces between the camera's lens interfaces internally, altering its apparent projected position while attenuating it enough to not wash out the CCD.

[Next_Star_Industries]

From Southwest Missouri.

Edited August 21, 2017 by Next_Star_Industries

[ProtoJeb21]

3 hours ago, YNM said:

Like this :

I have seen this effect on at least another photo as well. This was taken during the solar eclipse last year where I live. Taken by my cousin.

I think I might have seen something similar once or twice.

[_Augustus_]

5 hours ago, YNM said:

Like this :

I have seen this effect on at least another photo as well. This was taken during the solar eclipse last year where I live. Taken by my cousin.

My only photo of the eclipse was taken with a phone and is similar. Will post soon.

I was in Andrews SC and got to see totality. Y'all in the 97% or whatever zones really missed out! Totality is spectacular.

Edited August 22, 2017 by _Augustus_

[The Raging Sandwich]

All images taken through my telescope.

 

[YNM]

3 hours ago, sevenperforce said:

The image bounces between the camera's lens interfaces internally, altering its apparent projected position while attenuating it enough to not wash out the CCD.

Ah, that's an explanation ! It's from a phone though, surely aren't phones only have two glass element (one the focusing lens and the other the cover on the outside, probably the third for the CMOS) ?

1 hour ago, _Augustus_ said:

My only photo of the eclipse was taken with a phone and is similar. Will post soon.

I was in Andrews SC and got to see totality. Y'all in the 97% or whatever zones really missed out! Totality is spectacular.

Well, I should save up and wait for 2023...

[Benjamin Kerman]

I had an interesting way of making a oinhole camera: a pair of binoculars backwards, with the light going in the large end and coming out the small. Shine that on a peice of paper 4-6 feet away and focus, makes a large circle that makes it easy to see where the sun is being bitten. 

Have pictures, will post later!

[SaturnianBlue]

 

Drove to Kentucky to watch the eclipse - it was like sunset, but the  salmon pink of it all could be seen from all directions. I didn't get to see any planets, unfortunately, but I saw the diamond ring effect. Come to think of it, these eclipses are a pretty effective way to point out that the sun is in fact white, and not yellow.

Edited August 22, 2017 by SaturnianBlue

[cubinator]

23 minutes ago, SaturnianBlue said:

I didn't get to see any planets, unfortunately, but I saw the diamond ring effect.

The star Regulus is visible in your own picture though! Several much dimmer stars are also discernible.

23 minutes ago, SaturnianBlue said:

Come to think of it, these eclipses are a pretty effective way to point out that the sun is in fact white, and not yellow.

I was quite surprised when I took off my orange-tinted eclipse glasses to see how white the corona really is.

[SaturnianBlue]

8 minutes ago, cubinator said:

The star Regulus is visible in your own picture though! Several much dimmer stars are also discernible.

I was quite surprised when I took off my orange-tinted eclipse glasses to see how white the corona really is.

Oh wow! I didn't notice it, but I'm assuming the blue smudge to the left is it, right?

[cubinator]

5 minutes ago, SaturnianBlue said:

Oh wow! I didn't notice it, but I'm assuming the blue smudge to the left is it, right?

Yes, the smudge is Regulus. I did not see it while I was in the shadow, but I saw a bunch of other cool stuff.

Edited August 22, 2017 by cubinator

[Benjamin Kerman]

The promised pictures! Just before totality!

Edited August 22, 2017 by Benjamin Kerman
Moar pics, and better!!!

[CatastrophicFailure]

Serious question, cuz there are smart people here (mods move this if you must):

Is there like... a table anywhere, comparing the light levels during the eclipse to what it might look like on another planet?

Like, 90% totality, this is what Ceres would look like, etc. 

I was really surprised how much of the sun was covered before I could notice any drop in ambient light. 

[The Space Dino]

Awesome pics! Wonder when an eclipse will happen in my area...

(phew I haven't run out of likes yet)

[sevenperforce]

7 hours ago, CatastrophicFailure said:

Serious question, cuz there are smart people here (mods move this if you must):

Is there like... a table anywhere, comparing the light levels during the eclipse to what it might look like on another planet?

Like, 90% totality, this is what Ceres would look like, etc. 

I was really surprised how much of the sun was covered before I could notice any drop in ambient light. 

Not really, and here's why. About a third of the sun's incident light is scattered by Earth's atmosphere. We see this as the blue of the sky, because higher-wavelength light is scattered most sharply. If you've ever been near the bottom of a large parking garage or any other structure where a thin sliver of the sky is visible, you can sometimes see the blue skyshine coming down onto your hands independent of the redder direct sunlight.

The sky acts a little like one of the big parabolic reflectors that photographers use with professional flash systems. So, even if the moon is blocking 80-90% of the sunlight directly above you, you're still able to see hundreds of miles of sky, which scatters sunlight in every direction. This scattering is one of the reasons why there's very little apparent drop in ambient light.

Finally, the amount of light you see is largely dependent on the sun's interaction with our atmosphere, so there's not really a good analogue to other planets because they do not have the same atmosphere as our own.

8 hours ago, Benjamin Kerman said:

The promised pictures! Just before totality!

Whoa, that is fantastic! Really impressive job. I would not have thought of doing that, but the magnification is impressive.

I was surprised by how clear an image I was able to get (up to 3" across) just by using my thumb and forefinger as a camera obscura.

10 hours ago, YNM said:

Ah, that's an explanation ! It's from a phone though, surely aren't phones only have two glass element (one the focusing lens and the other the cover on the outside, probably the third for the CMOS) ?

Well, I should save up and wait for 2023...

Even a single pane of glass can produce this sort of aberration, since you can have reflections internal to the piece of glass. Any place where you have a boundary between air and glass, you can have reflections.

[_Augustus_]

17 hours ago, YNM said:

Well, I should save up and wait for 2023...

You mean April 2024?

16 hours ago, Benjamin Kerman said:

I had an interesting way of making a oinhole camera: a pair of binoculars backwards, with the light going in the large end and coming out the small. Shine that on a peice of paper 4-6 feet away and focus, makes a large circle that makes it easy to see where the sun is being bitten. 

Have pictures, will post later!

That's not backwards, and it is a well-known method of viewing the sun called projection. I would be careful doing it with binoculars though as they have cement holding in their prisms, which may melt from the heat.

14 hours ago, CatastrophicFailure said:

I was really surprised how much of the sun was covered before I could notice any drop in ambient light. 

I think it's because the eclipse is a relatively slow and gradual process, so our eyes adapt to the lower light levels. I found it interesting that shadows became far lower in contrast to the ground as more of the Sun was eclipsed.

[LordFerret]

One more I took that I was going to post but forgot...

 

And this one, from my sister down in TX; No question, she's innovative, a spaghetti strainer (colander) provides a whole slew of eclipses...

 

[Cabbink]

My Best Shot, After some processing. I experienced 93%.

[tater]

 

[JeanRenaud]

So the real question here : Anyone have the RSS Mod, and was able to reproduce the eclipse in the software ?  I tried, and the moon was at the wrong side of the earth.

[LordFerret]

1 hour ago, tater said:

 

That image is so very cool, I'm impressed. I'm also amazed that it was taken at pretty much the same moment as the image I posted from Celestia a while back (in @GoSlash27's  original thread).

 

[YNM]

10 hours ago, _Augustus_ said:

 

On 8/22/2017 at 8:45 AM, YNM said:

Well, I should save up and wait for 2023...

You mean April 2024?

Read again where I live in...

8 hours ago, LordFerret said:

... a spaghetti strainer (colander) provides a whole slew of eclipses...

 

Now THAT's smart.

[qzgy]

Own picture.Or dads.

Taken from near Madisonville Tennessee. That little star speck is regulus from what I've heard?

Edited August 23, 2017 by qzgy

[RoadRunnerAerospace]

Yup, that speck is regulus

[Dooz]

 from greenwood south carolina. The speck Is regulus. Solar prominence are sort of visible in the picture.

And here Is one of my many pictures of partial

And here is an extremely crude GIF of all the pictures of partial I took

Please do not open if you are prone to seizures caused by flashing images.

Spoiler

http://i.imgur.com/7h4cfrz.gifv

 

Edited August 24, 2017 by Dooz