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Description
I’m posting this as a teaser – the next opportunity for one of these comes up October 14. Here’s a map of the centerline, where you will need to be to get the ring. (This one was shot in 2012.) The ring will be a little thinner this next time so I’m hoping I can get close enough to the centerline. (So will quite a few other people.) I’ll be exploring dirt roads…
Specific Feedback
All comments welcome!
Technical Details
Canvas enlarged and shots composited taken every 15-20 min. Some fast-moving clouds made the choice of some intervals a little uneven. Solar filter and Sol-Searcher.
An excellent resource for this and the total eclipse coming up next April 8 is here:
Get a good solar filter. The inexpensive solar films will protect the camera (and your eyesight) but are stiff and a struggle to mount. Wrinkles will degrade the image, and the cheap ones don’t give the best optical quality for more detailed things like sunspots. Thousand Oaks Optical is a reliable source for good filters and they can be sold out before eclipses.
Here’s the filter, my homemade eclipse glasses (the cheap cardboard ones are useless) and how to mount a Sol Searcher – it needs to be reasonably collimated with the lens axis and with my lens – I’ll be using 1000mm for the annular.
The Sol Searcher comes without a base. I could probably do a reasonable job of taping it on the lens backed up against the flange but the adapter gets it above the filter and makes it steadier. I can look up what it is if anyone is interested. It’s designed to mount to a telescope.
Thanks, @Tom_Nevesely – there are two small sunspots visible int he first two and the last one. The other details are clouds. That’s why the sequence ends where it does – that and a long drive home from a location just south of Pyramid Lake. There are some decent sunspots today – I may give it a try.
