Solar Eclipse, 2012

[Kestrana]

Yeah so at 7:48 or so we drove out to the neighboring field and watched the sun descend below the horizon before any part of the moon obscured it. Hopefully no one got any ticks.

[ravnostic]

Yeah so at 7:48 or so we drove out to the neighboring field and watched the sun descend below the horizon before any part of the moon obscured it. Hopefully no one got any ticks.

For. The. Win. Best commentary evar.

[CauseISaidSo]

Wow did y’all get some incredible shots!

As I previously mentioned, I’m currently in San Diego since last Friday. I come out here periodically on business, but this time my wife came with me for the weekend and it’s the first time I’ve had a chance to actually sightsee here. Yesterday was really overcast so I assumed I’d miss the eclipse and actually forgot about it. We literally didn’t see much of the sun all day long, but while we were hiking in Torrey Pines, right about eclipse time, the clouds thinned just enough to actually view the eclipse with the naked eye and unfiltered camera! Unfortunately, all I had with me was my Canon G12 P&S, so here’s what I got:

100% crop right about eclipse start:

You can’t really see much of the eclipse at this size, but this gives an idea of the cloud cover and the fortuitous break thereof:

A view through the trees to give some visual interest:

And the last view we got before the clouds swallowed up the sun again:

[Yoyo]

https://public.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pS5X3nDkyd1MDtYBkdNhiAV8FMtP4FrXmD6Pyyf4I3M1MYZ-vtjzM6LE3KbQPdvAU0a1NcaF7XwWUJkNEjpy4Kg/sunset-trees.jpg?psid=1

I was shooting from Red Rock Park near Gallup, NM. The shade 11 welding lens that I brought was giving really bad results, but luckily there was a couple of eclipse chasers visiting from Chicago and they let me have one of their flimsy plastic viewers that worked out great. My filter holder was an oak plank that I drilled to mount on my tripod plate and hold the camera at one end. I also worked very well for swapping filters unexpectedly.

/argh! why don’t images work for me?

[Yugoboy]

/argh! why don’t images work for me?

Same reason they didn’t for me. Fortunately, staplermofo diagnosed it: it’s the “?psid=1” SkyDrive puts on the end of links. Delete that before hitting “Submit” and all will be well.

[Yoyo]

And the black speck in the lower right of the sun isn’t schmutz on my lens. It’s the big sunspot.
Canon EOS Rebel T2i w/ EF-S 55-250/3.5-5.6 at full zoom.
ISO 100, 1/80 s., F/11.

[ravnostic]

love the foreground detail, Yoyo I wanted a similar shot with powerlines through my scope, but hit a wrong button during the final approach and couldn’t get back to the view in time. I did capture it with the xTi, but the haze wasn’t dark enough, blew out the sun, and thus the powerlines. :o(

[fluffybunny]

Hey Rav,

Thanks for the compliment.

The diffraction spikes are interesting but the triplet (triptych?) is more visually appealing to me.
Should be framed and hanging in an office or store, freakin’ awesome.
Two completely different classes of image, both great.

/While the black background of the triplet might suggest velvet as a print media, DO NOT.

[ravnostic]

Ah, I’d need to recrop it, fluffy!! The full phase is obviously not to scale (easy enough to fix.) I keep meaning to get with Jeff Craw and B.J. Hollander about setting up my flickr account for Getty stock images. over the past two years, I’ve gotten some good shots that might appeal to someone, somewhere.

Here’s one more; this is a crop pentych; sunspot 1484 as she’s swallowed by the moon’s shadow.

http://fossilspringsaz.com/pics/2012/may/20/sunspoteclipsepost.jpg

I used a minor sunspot for alignment between images. Kinda doesn’t look that way, but in the grid, it is indeed aligned.

[Yugoboy]

Jesus that’s some crazy good shit you’ve been posting…

[fluffybunny]

Ah, I’d need to recrop it, fluffy!! The full phase is obviously not to scale (easy enough to fix.) I keep meaning to get with Jeff Craw and B.J. Hollander about setting up my flickr account for Getty stock images. over the past two years, I’ve gotten some good shots that might appeal to someone, somewhere.

Here’s one more; this is a crop pentych; sunspot 1484 as she’s swallowed by the moon’s shadow.

http://fossilspringsaz.com/pics/2012/may/20/sunspoteclipsepost.jpg

I used a minor sunspot for alignment between images. Kinda doesn’t look that way, but in the grid, it is indeed aligned.

If it were me, I’d keep it as is. I like the center image slightly larger, FWIW.

[ravnostic]

Jesus that’s some crazy good shit you’ve been posting…

Thanks. I know people tell us that it isn’t the equipment, it’s the photographer, but sometimes–it’s the equipment.

//though I give kudos for me for figuring out alignment (but not orientation) in the daylight, and the wisdom to bring a $2 Wallyworld black pillowcase to aid in seeing the view screen during live-view focusing.

Ah, I’d need to recrop it, fluffy!! The full phase is obviously not to scale (easy enough to fix.) I keep meaning to get with Jeff Craw and B.J. Hollander about setting up my flickr account for Getty stock images. over the past two years, I’ve gotten some good shots that might appeal to someone, somewhere.

Here’s one more; this is a crop pentych; sunspot 1484 as she’s swallowed by the moon’s shadow.

http://fossilspringsaz.com/pics/2012/may/20/sunspoteclipsepost.jpg

I used a minor sunspot for alignment between images. Kinda doesn’t look that way, but in the grid, it is indeed aligned.

If it were me, I’d keep it as is. I like the center image slightly larger, FWIW.

Noted. Might realign the centers, though, at least.

[chupathingie]

Wow, a lot of great stuff posted here since I looked last! Rav, you were definitely in the right locale for things… those sunspot images are awesome! And yeah, a few ” of drift over a couple minutes is pretty tight…any tighter would need an autoguider.

Cause, I really like the cloudy shots…lends a lot of atmosphere to the images…

[hunches]

Here’s what I got:

Nothing too great, but not bad for shooting through my sunglasses from my front lawn 🙂

Link goes to a few other pics, including one that’s totally blown out but has an inverted crescent artifact that I like, but this is my favorite.

Some very nice shots everyone!

[ravnostic]

I like the crescent lens flare one, hunches; but the one is is lovely, too, with those colors.

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