America just had their total solar eclipse. Turns out here in Australia we are getting one in 2028, and it’s going right over Sydney where I live! Holy freakin’ hell!
Might be worth travelling to the Blue Mountains, somewhere like Lithgow, or even inland to Dubbo. Both have perfect dark skies for astrophotography. #Eclipse#TotalEclipse#SolarEclipse https://eclipse.asa.astronomy.org.au/eclipse-australia-2028/
I focused more on experiencing the solar #eclipse than taking pictures, but here are my pathetic-excuse-of-pictures at #totality. It was partly cloudy but luckily enough breaks throughout at critical junctures. The clouds did add interesting dimension to the experience, like the accentuated blue.
1 Fully eclipsed sun through thin clouds
2 Same as 1 but no clouds
3 Ultrawide shot w a star usually visible only at night. Do you spot it?
The ultrawide shot 👆🏽 marked up with a thin red circle around a star that is usually visible only at night. It got so dark at totality that we actually could see stars.
PS: I don't know how much of the original picture quality Mastodon/Fediverse preserves.
For 3 minutes & 20 seconds, the Sun's surface remained totally hidden, and we lived within the Moon's shadow. In the sky hung a black orb, surrounded by brilliant, diamond-like fire, with splashes of hot pink, and a bright, ghostly aura.
The pink areas are solar prominences, giant arches of solar material that dive in and out of the Sun's surface, powered by its strong magnetic fields. The white is the Sun's corona, it's upper atmosphere.
Over the course of an hour, the Moon slowly engulfed the Sun, taking a gradually larger bite out of it until, mere seconds before totality, there was nothing left but the thinnest of slivers. As this occurred, the landscape gradually became darker, as if it were close to sunset, but the light somehow became harsher as it grew dimmer. Things felt as if some kind of cinematic filter was being used in real life.
After just a few minutes, the Sun is noticeably eclipsed by the Moon. It took just over an hour from the start to reach totality.
The edge of the Sun appears darker than the centre, an effect known as limb-darkening. This occurs because the Sun is cooler at the top of its atmosphere than it is deeper down. Regions of the sun that are cooler give off less light, and at the edges we are only seeing the cooler upper layers of the atmosphere, so they appear darker.
The first seconds of the total solar eclipse, with the Moon just starting to clip the limb of the Sun on the lower right side.
Near the centre and upper left of the Sun are prominent sunspots, regions of the Sun's atmosphere that are held in place by powerful magnetic fields. This allows them to cool without sinking back into lower layers to reheat. Being cooler than their surroundings means they give off less light, and so appear as dark spots.
In today's episode of Watching the Eclipse Watchers, some Opinions about science:
the eclipse is fake news, because I saw a video of it were it glitches and everything moved to the left (obviously the camera was moved to get a better angle, nobody moved the astral bodies)
you know they lie to us about all this because you can see the sun and moon are the same size
"somebody explain to me how the moon, which is transparent/translucent during the day, blocks the sun out I'll wait 😂"
discussion over how this is an event in a spiritual war, because of shadow bands*
Ome photos I got of yesterday's eclipse. For how little I prepped and how modest my gear was, I'm pretty happy with these. #photography#art#Eclipse#solareclipse
During the awe of solar eclipse totality, scientists studied our planet’s reactions.
Science News reports on the work of Darci Snowden, a space physicist at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, who sent up weather balloons to capture data.
Drove 10 1/2 hours to Killeen, TX, to shoot the Eclipse. Unfortunately, it was mostly overcast during the day. But, we did get some breaks here and there to get some shots #eclipse#solareclipse#astrophotography#photography
"Cloudflare’s data shows a clear impact [of the Great North American Eclipse] on Internet traffic from Mexico to Canada, following the path of totality."
OH! OH! I just found this gem among my bracketed exposures of the eclipse! Got a super nice rainbowy halo during the diamond ring. And gorgeous wispy clouds all around! Single exposure, no blending.
ISO 640 500mm f/10 1/60s #SolarEclipse#EclipseSolar2024
I saw the #eclipse in totality! It was one of the most arresting things I’ve ever seen.
There was a small crowd at the park we settled down in. As the sun faded, people began to applaud. That quickly erupted into a roar of shouts & cries of excitement as the sun transitioned to totality. Beyond special.