Ring o fire!

[VirtualLarry]

Don’t Miss: “Ring of Fire” Solar Eclipse + Moon, Jupiter, Saturn, and Venus

What are some skywatching highlights in October 2023? A "ring of fire" solar eclipse across the Americas on October 14 is this month's top highlight! Plus the Moon, Jupiter, Saturn, and Venus strike some lovely poses for stargazers and planet watchers to enjoy. https://youtu.be/fqK4m9eHYyU

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Yay, eclipse.

 

[Greenman]

Wasn't it Steve Martin that said "a total eclipse of the sun is a rare and beautiful thing, and a total eclipse of the moon is a cheap and common spectacle"?

 

[spacejamz]

Here's a test shot of the sun with my new solar filter...gonna be in Houston for the airshow down there so should see 80%-90% coverage tomorrow...

 

[BoomerD]

I'm not in the path of the eclipse...and wouldn't be able to see it if I was...cloudy and preparing to rain.

 

[IronWing]

Starts soon

 

[stargazr]

I'm all set with my eclipse glasses!

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Is everything in tune?

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Ugh we were supposed to have clear skies today in San Antonio and nope, clouded the hell over and can't see the sun at all as of ~45 minutes before max eclipse. Oh well, I have seen annular eclipses before but I'll be insanely pissed if it's clouded over April 8th for the full solar eclipse considering the San Antonio area hasn't had a full solar eclipse since around the year 1300.

 

[stargazr]

Clouds finally broke away, it's almost half way there. Very cool!

 

[Ken g6]

I got a picture with my setup. It's not a telescope and filter. It's one side of a pair of binoculars, focused on a sheet of paper. (NEVER an EYE!!!)

 

[sdifox]

I got the bing background pix from Qatar. Good enough for me.

Christmas lights in Domaso, Lake Como, Italy

When the twinkling reflections on Italy"s Lake Como outshine the stars, you know Christmas has docked in Domaso. Once a fishing village, this lakeside town now transforms each winter into a glittering display of holiday cheer, where pastel houses, old churches, and waterfront villas are wrapped...

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[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

100% overcast.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

I got a picture with my setup. It's not a telescope and filter. It's one side of a pair of binoculars, focused on a sheet of paper. (NEVER an EYE!!!)

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What's cool is any hole small enough will project an image through it, so if you prick a little hole in a piece of paper with say the tip of a pen and hold the paper up towards the sun you'll see the image of the sun in the shadow of the paper. And if you move your fingers close enough together while holding that sheet of paper the gaps through your fingers where the sun passes will turn into crescent shapes too. If you go look under a tree you'll see tons of crescent shaped images of the partially eclipsed sun right now since every tiny gap between the leaves acts like a camera projecting the image of the sun.

 

[IronWing]

The condors were digging the cool light.

 

[Ken g6]

What's cool is any hole small enough will project an image through it, so if you prick a little hole in a piece of paper with say the tip of a pen and hold the paper up towards the sun you'll see the image of the sun in the shadow of the paper. And if you move your fingers close enough together while holding that sheet of paper the gaps through your fingers where the sun passes will turn into crescent shapes too. If you go look under a tree you'll see tons of crescent shaped images of the partially eclipsed sun right now since every tiny gap between the leaves acts like a camera projecting the image of the sun.

If you look closely you can see how the notches on my binoculars' focus knob made little arcs too.

 

[IronWing]

Weird double post

 

[SteveGrabowski]

I can't compete with @IronWing 's direct shot of the eclipse, but I thought this one was very cool under a tree in my yard where all these tiny holes sunlight can peek through between leaves basically became (pinhole) cameras projecting the image of the crescent sun onto the driveway.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Was trying to take a photo of a pinhole camera I made with a sheet of paper with a tiny hole poked into it, which did give an image of crescent sun on the my neighbor's driveway here, though it didn't show up in the photo. But in this photo my fingers were close enough together you can see the image of the sun in the gap between them here, which I thought was incredibly cool using the my fingers as an aperture to project an image of the sun.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Missed this one, had no idea it was happening. Seems the last one they talked about it for a long time. It's nothing but rain here anyway so I wouldn't have seen it.

 

[Fenixgoon]

this one is from my 70-200 @ 200mm. i also had my wide-angle going on intervals to make a composite later. that one's gonna take a while.

 

[BoomerD]

 

[spacejamz]

Here's my shot I got while at the Wings Over Houston airshow... Pretty close to the max coverage Houston had at 85%.

 

[Fenixgoon]

ok here we go - timelapse composite baybeeeeeeeeeee

 

[IronWing]

Congratulations, well done!

 

[IronWing]

Now, how did you do it? Double star filter for the sun and butte background, then on with the sun filter for the time-lapse eclipse frames?