Solar eclipse – 2017
We traveled to Princeton, KY to view the eclipse on Aug. 21, 2017. These are a few of the photos I took through my telescope.
Additional photos from our outing can be found on Kate’s blog.
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- Eclipse underway. Note the sunspots!
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- Final moments with the filter.
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- Filter off, just before totality.
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- “Bailey’s beads.” This is caused by sun shining through mountains and valleys on the moon.
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- The jet of flame at about 3:00 on the eclipsed sun is a solar prominence, and is larger than the planet Earth..
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- Totality.
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- This and the next two images are similar, but show slight differences in what we see of the corona.
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- “Diamond ring” effect, more than a little overexposed. Next time I’ll nail it.
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- Moon moving further out of alignment with our position.
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- Sunspots reappear.
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- The main difference between this and the previous photo is the filter is back on the scope.
