Posted on 03/19/2024 5:42:47 AM PDT by week 71
It’s August 2017 and everyone is abuzz with news of the solar eclipse. Fast forward seven years and, once again, the moon’s path across the sun has everyone excited.
The Great American Eclipse is set for April 8. Almost all of the U.S. will get to experience the moon block out the sun but parts of 15 states - Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Kentucky, Michigan and Tennessee – are along the path of totality, or the route of greatest darkness during the eclipse.
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You need to get a solar filter, whose diameter is the same as the diameter of the other filters you use in your camera. Thus, if your camera has a 51 mm filter mount, you’ll need a 51 mm solar filter. Solar filters are totally different from ordinary filters in that they are almost opaque and transmit less than 1% of the light. If you don’t use one, you will seriously damage both your viewing eye and the camera, particularly if you’re shooting at a relatively high magnification. You might also be able to find one for a smart phone. Check on that with either the phone manufacturer or a secondary supplier like Amazon.
I know about this because I took an excellent set of pictures of the 2017 eclipse using a 51 mm solar filter for my Panasonic FZ 300 camera.
Correct post. However, for a sharper image put a piece o aluminum foil over a hole in the cardboard and pierce a tiny hole in it using a sewing needle.
Given that I have retina issues to start with, I'll opt for the ol' pinhole-on-cardboard-projection-to-white-paper thingy. If the weather cooperates, that is.
I saw the 2017 eclipse in Nebraska and it was the experience of a lifetime. Instead of wasting time on what fashions to wear concentrate on the seeing an incredible phenomenon. My vantage point in Geneva, NE was near a large oak tree and as the eclipse progressed to cover the sun, the leaves worked like a defraction grating creating patterns of the solar disk being covered by the moon. At totality there were “sunsets” in all directions. I was able to get incredible pictures.
Pinhole and paper works great.
Somebody always predicts a big earthquake at the fault line nearest the eclipse. So far they’re 0fer.
I have a wedge and also several H-alpha filters as well as a Ca-K. I’m not going to get tied up in equipment so no photography and I’ll probably stick with white light. I’ll be with family members, all of whom have never experienced a total eclipse. I’ve seen several total eclipses before, this one I’m just going to enjoy. Even if clouds get in the way.
...because any other color would be racist.
Anti-human “environmentalists” remain hopeful.
And someone else’s choices affect you how?
Looks like you’re all set!
I have a Dobson with a 10“ mirror I might dust off for the occasion..._IF_ I can find my solar filter. Otherwise, a pinhole in a cardboard box will do.
I’m in Indiana so I should see an awesome sight either way!
I’m in Northern Illinois. Most of my fellow club members are going either down-state, or Southwest. I’ll be staying behind. I have my cellphone camera, and I have a astronomy-only camera (Player One) that I haven’t used yet. I’m still getting acquainted with the software. I’m gonna try that, and the cellphone at the eyepiece. I’ll probably have better luck with that. I don’t think I know the software well enough yet for the computer driven camera, but I’m gonna try.
I wish I had a dslr, I’d feel a little more confident with that.
Good luck, I hope you have a great time!
I hope the weather co-operates….
Excellent! I hope it turns out great for you!
I intend to sleep through it and ignore it.
Great tip! Thanks!
Ive always dismissed gloom and doom end of the world stuff in the past but these days..... Hell, we’re damn near there now.
The shadows of leaves.
That was one of my favorite parts.
To me it’s amazing and I don’t know
why it does it either.
Not me. Experiencing the eclipse in totality 7 years ago was fascinating. Turned quiet like at night. Nocturnal creatures seem to quietly emerge. I am not some hyper mistic, but there was a weird feeling in the ‘ether’
We used that method for the 2017 eclipse.
Worked a treat!
And we got pics of the paper to show the progress of the eclipse.
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