The day started cloudy and mostly stayed cloudy, but the clouds were thin enough at times to get a view of the partial eclipse from Santa Fe. An Orion 80mmED f/7.5 refractor was used for photography. This telescope was riding on a Celestron CG-4 motor-driven equatorial mount. The camera was an Olympus E-M5iii looking through a ND-0.6 filter and a Lunt solar wedge. For visual observation we used a Celestron 80mm f/5 refractor equipped with a front-mounted Kendrick Al-mylar solar filter. A black-polymer "window frame" filter was used for non-telescopic viewing.
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| A few minutes before maximum eclipse (12:30 MDT). |
The variable and at-times thick clouds disrupted the planned-interval exposures, so I pretty much clicked away at random in case the clouds got worse.
This false-color nine-image montage spans about 45 minutes:
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| The bottom-left image is near maximum eclipse. |
This is a natural-color animation created from all the images:
There were occasional moments of relative clarity:
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| Sun spots. ISO 200, 1/200 s. |
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| ISO 200, 1/640 s. |
This is a view through the black-polymer window-frame filter using a Nikon 85mm lens on a Sony A7iii camera:
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