Monday, April 8, 2024

Eclipse

The day started off all cloudy, but the clouds got less dense, and then when the eclipse in our front yard reached totality, we had a big break in the clouds.




The first picture has a sunspot in the middle. In the totality picture, slightly to the right of the bottom of the sun in the totality picture there is a hint of a reddish prominence which in my 8" telescope had lovely structure. A quick measurement from the photo shows that the prominence is about seven times the size of the earth.

1 comment:

  1. I'm really glad you got to experience the total eclipse. Those are great photos! I only had a partial solar eclipse. It was still nice to see all the crescent-shaped shadows, though.

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