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Ring o fire!

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

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Corfu at night, Greece

The island of Corfu, Greece, meets you at night with a quiet kind of intensity: stone facades catching warm lamplight, fortress walls rising in sharp outline, and narrow lanes unfolding like a lived-in labyrinth. The Old Town doesn"t just look historic—it feels inhabited, shaped by centuries of...
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Ken g6 said:
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.
 
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SteveGrabowski said:
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.
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If you look closely you can see how the notches on my binoculars' focus knob made little arcs too. 🙂
 
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.

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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.
 
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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?
 
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