A bad phone-camera picture of today's partial solar eclipse which was hidden behind clouds. Taken through the eyepiece of an 80mm/f=600mm ED telescope.
See also eclipse pictures from 2008 when the weather was sunny.
Tag: eclipse
Fog instead of a lunar eclipse
In contrast to the recent partial solar eclipse southern Finland didn't see much of this evenings partial lunar eclipse. It wasn't outright raining, but the amount of water in the air prevented any view of the moon, eclipsed or not. It should have looked something like this.
Partial Solar Eclipse
Today's partial solar eclipse happened from 11:44 to 13:55 local time, so we combined observing the eclipse with a lunch-picnic for the whole lab.
One telescope with a 25mm positive lens at the eye-piece projected an image of the sun into a cardboard box. Another was used with a tracking mount and an OD=5 solar filter for visual observations and photography.
It was cloudy before the eclipse and rainy in the afternoon so we were lucky with the weather!
Variations on the same theme: