Eclipse

port perran · March 20, 2015, 07:57:56 AM

So....looking forward to the partial eclipse of the sun this morning.
It's light cloud with sunny intervals at the moment but hopefully it will be bright in another hour or so.

MikeDunn · March 20, 2015, 08:06:56 AM

Cloud's rolling in so might not set the scope up

Sprintex · March 20, 2015, 09:40:14 AM

Blanket of grey cloud here, nothing to see except it has got appreciably darker

Paul

port perran · March 20, 2015, 09:43:53 AM

Got noticeably darker here but nowhere near totally dark.
It was bright and sunny here and it did get very much colder.
Gklad I witnessed it.

Bealman · March 20, 2015, 10:39:54 AM

Been gettin' dark here since 6pm.... oh wait, it's the six schooners of VB...

On a serious foot, the couple of eclipses I've witnessed here in Oz have been cloudy, but the birds thought it was bedtime and all went quiet in the backyard.

mika · March 20, 2015, 10:49:18 AM

It was sunny here, so went out and had a peek. My father-in-law gave us a few panes of welder's glass (sorry, my dictionary didn't help here so I had to improvise...) and it worked fine.
Wonderful experience!

Michael

Newportnobby · March 20, 2015, 10:51:35 AM

Quote from: Bealman on March 20, 2015, 10:39:54 AM
Been gettin' dark here since 6pm.... oh wait, it's the six schooners of VB...

Mainly cloudy here but managed to see the eclipse through my 'Eclipse specs' when it was about 70% complete.

MalcolmInN · March 20, 2015, 10:54:39 AM

We got lucky in N.Somerset, good view,
even with all the science, moon orbit, predictions, expectation, - it still got a bit spooky ! maybe part of my primitive brain saying "hey you just woke up, it souldnt be getting dark" !
Projection thro' 10x50 bino :

mika · March 20, 2015, 11:00:56 AM

Quote from: MalcolmAL on March 20, 2015, 10:54:39 AM
Projection thro' 10x50 bino :

great idea

Bealman · March 20, 2015, 11:05:43 AM

Good pic!!

Here's a link to a shot I got of the transit of Venus a few years back, using the projection technique:

http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?topic=9928.msg103404#msg103404

Agrippa · March 20, 2015, 12:15:44 PM

Ben A did a report from Leicester this morning on the Beeb, in his
usual relaxed and straightforward manner.

Geoff · March 20, 2015, 12:31:16 PM

It was cloudy here in sunny Warrington, and I was able to see the eclipse through the clouds until it got fully covered byt the clouds, so were we lucky to have a double eclipse oh boy it went cold.

MalcolmInN · March 20, 2015, 01:06:36 PM

Insolation !
luvverly word, always wanted to use it !!

I wonder if this is of any interest ? :-
During the maximum ~~penetration~~,~~obsuration~~, ingress,
I took an auto exposure of a random bit of the garden, on the left.
Then when it was all over I did the same again, on the right.
Quite a difference in exposures !

Is there a real photographer in the house - I should be able to convert those numbers into EVs, but I have forgotten how !
Not real science (well not that any real physicist would approve of !) cos I only thought of it during the eclipse, so no serious calibrations, just for curiosity

Agrippa · March 20, 2015, 01:11:56 PM

EVs , there's a blast from the past. Years ago some cameras , usually not SLRs,had EV
shutters so you could have wide aperture / high shutter speed and vice versa so
the light reaching the film was the same.

MalcolmInN · March 20, 2015, 01:22:47 PM

Quote from: Agrippa on March 20, 2015, 01:11:56 PM
there's a blast from the past.
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shutters so you could have wide aperture / high shutter speed and vice versa

Yep, that describes me quite well

,,
yep, mine does that,
I thought about doing it on manual, but that would have needed a lot of visual checking back and forth, whilst I really wanted to watch the eclipse, so I relied on the full auto setting.
but, a bit of a blunder, I forgot that it was on spot metering, should have chosen an area mode

so that would explain a small difference 'twixt the two pics.
So much to catch one out on these newfangled digital machines.