Monday, August 21, 2017

Total Eclipse 8/21/2017

    Disclaimer : These photos do no justice to the spectacle created by the Moon blotting out the late morning Sun.

  It started innocently enough as a small notch formed on the upper right edge of the Sun.

   The bite got bigger....

....until our local star showed a fat crescent.

   It progress until only a sliver remained
    After the last ray of sun shined through a deep crater on the Moon's rim creating a diamond ring effect(not pictured), the elusive solar corona appeared.  A close look at the photo below reveals a red promenience at the same position that the moon's transit started.
  A longer exposure shows the star Regulus  (circled) to the lower left of the eclipsed Sun.
 
He had to stay home because he couldn't pass the eclipse safety test.

3 comments:

  1. Brilliant photos, Mark! Congratulations!

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  2. Thanks, the time of totality was the fastest two minutes of my life.

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  3. I have been waiting patiently for your pictures. I was not disappointed! Where did you end up going?

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