Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning


Jan 26, 2009: Solar Eclipse

While not a great day for an eclipse, the clouds certainly provided some interesting views of the sun during the eclipse. I missed the maximum because of the clouds - but here is the story. I parked myself on the 10th floor of our new building and just waited and waited for the clouds to disappear. They did not - but it was quite an interesting time none-the-less. Here is a typical photo of the cloud challenge

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But to the northwest, things looked like they might improve

skyline

Refelctions from the side of the building

reflections Eclipse reflections when the clouds obscured the eclipse

eclipse reflections

Looking up under the grill work in our new building

building grills

Here is my setup - the gray thing on the flash is a GPS for recording satellite time and GPS coordinates (the building should be stationary - this was a small test.

camera setup

This is a photo of the sun at 15:37 - with minimal clouds. Nice sharp borders of the sun.

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16:33:38 SGT

jan 26 9895 eclipse crop

16:42:11 SGT

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16:46:17 SGT

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16:48:36 SGT

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17:00:03 SGT

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17:07:00 SGT

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17:16:57 SGT

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17:27:15 SGT

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17:34:34 SGT

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17:35:09 SGT

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17:37:37 SGT

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17:37:40 SGT

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17:39:30 SGT

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This happened - and nothing to see until 45 min later - after the climax - sigh

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18:20:34 SGT

eclipse

18:25:48 SGT

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18:28:30 SGT

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18:29:33 SGT

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This is pretty much the end - The clouds took over at 18:31:37 SGT

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C. Frank Starmer

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