Solar Eclipse May 20, 2012

[Josh66]

Only 12 years . I wish I'd remembered to switch back to JPEG/RAW, I have a couple other shots I probably could have cleaned up real nice.

Plenty of time to gear up.

Hermit Eclipse: Total Solar Eclipse: April 8 2024

 

[c0ld]

I got this one guys, patch barely opened since it was damn cloudy!

 

[OrionsByte]

So I decided to leave my D7000 at home for this one - it was more important to me to share this event with my four-and-a-half year old than miss it because I was trying to take pictures of it.

So instead of taking all my camera gear, I got my telescope (and solar filter) out of the back of the closet and got it all set up over at my parents' house, who have a better view of the western sky than we do at our apartment. The only photos I took were snapshots with my iPhone:

This was neat - the leaves from the trees acted like hundreds of little pinhole lenses, which made the shadows look really cool:

Eventually I did manage to get a picture taken through the telescope by holding my iPhone up to the lens. It wasn't easy! You can see sunspots though (that's not dirt on the lens ):

So yeah, no masterpiece photos, but good snapshots of good memories.

 

[Dominantly]

Mine came out like a moon shot.

 

[shuttervelocity]

I got several pics like this using a #14 welders glass fitted over a Pringles can. Not sure what else I can do with these to get better details.

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[c0ld]

Mine came out like a moon shot.

I am from San Diego too, I am close to the coast so it was hard to get a good shot. Cool shot though, I couldn't get any nighttime ones.

 

[jaikanth.k]

Mine came as Heart Shape as I was started with a test shot

This is only clean shot I could get


PinHole effect from Leafs