Solar and Lunar Eclipse
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All images are copyright Paul Money unless otherwise noted.
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I hope you enjoy
looking at them and perhaps may think to have a go yourselves.
Some of the older images were
originally taken on slide and print film and have been scanned and
transferred to CD Rom
where they have undergone
slight brightness/contrast enhancement so they show better on these pages.
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Lunar Eclipses
Total Lunar
Eclipse of April 3rd/4th 1997 taken using a 500mm
lens at F8, approx. 5 seconds exposure on 100 ISO slide film and tracked
using a basic camera platform powered by a car battery.
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The Total Lunar eclipse of January 9th 2001
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I had
several technical problems which prevented me getting the earlier stages
but this sequence was taken using the 10" F5 Newtonian Reflector tracking
the stars using the CTC (COAA Telescope Controller). It was taken at the
telescope prime focus on 100 ISO slide film and the exposures ranged from
5 seconds at left 1(taken
during totality at 20:37 GMT),
2 seconds for image 2 (just emerging from
shadow at 20:56 GMT and 1/250 sec for image 3 taken at approx. 21:22
GMT. The brightest star visible in image 1 is 63 Gemini.
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Total Lunar
Eclipse March 3rd-4th 2007
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Solar Eclipses
REMEMBER - always take care when
observing the Sun!
Total Solar Eclipse 1999
After waiting for almost 3 decades since I
first learned there would be a Total Solar Eclipse visible from the UK,
I awaited the August 11th 1999 Solar Eclipse with baited breath. Lorraine
& I took the decision to travel down to Torquay in Devon at the invitation
of the Torquay Astronomical Society as we wanted to witness the event from
the UK as there would not be another chance to see a Total Solar Eclipse from
UK shores in our lifetime again. Although, as the pictures show, the weather
was against us on the day it was a privilege to stand under the shadow of
the moon and despite the haze & cloud I at least managed to see the Bailey's
Beads for the first time ever just before the clouds completely blocked the
Sun & Moons combined disks. It was worth it for the wonderful hospitality
of TAS and the great atmosphere of everyone that gathered at their site.
And so it begins...
The view through the clouds with a 500mm plus 2X converter camera
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2/3 covered but the clouds thicken
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Just after totality and a thin
crescent can be seen through the clouds |
and then it's all over! |
The above 3 images
are the best I was able to take under the circumstances using the 500mm F8
lens & a 2 times converter with 100 ISO slide film and an approx. exposure
of 1/250 sec using a mylar filter. The first exposure was taken at approx.
10:30 BST, the 2nd exposure at approx. 10:55 BST whilst the end exposure
was taken at approx. 11:16 BST shortly after the Sun reappeared.
Annular Solar Eclipse May 31st
2003
Annularity only
visible from Scotland but partial phase was observed from a site I located
just south of the small village of Little Cawthorpe, near Louth, Lincolnshire.
About 7 people observed with Lorraine and myself with the 10" F5 Newtonian
Reflector available for observation. Local Sunrise was 04:42 BST but
thick mist prevented the thin crescent sun from being observed as it rose,
however, at approx. 05:06 BST one of our team (Barry) spotted the half eclipsed
sun as it slowly rose out of the mist and I managed to take these pictures.
the first two are taken at the prime focus of the telescope at 1/250 sec
exposure on 100 ISO slide film with the telescope unfiltered (the mist did
a good job in one way!). The final picture was taken using eyepiece projection
using a 26mm eyepiece and was at 1/500 sec.
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