Solar Eclipse at Sunset

[Doug L]

At this location, the Moon started moving in front of the Sun just before sunset. Just before first contact, I took some images with a telescope with a 'white light' solar filter, and also with a hydrogen-alpha (filtered) scope. Then, when the sun was almost at the horizon, I took an unfiltered shot with a 500mm (focal length) scope of the Sun and horizon. Note: if you ever do this, do not look through the camera's viewfinder to frame or focus the shot! This image was my background layer. Even at 1/4000 sec. exposure, the sun was basically a featureless white disk, but the three biggest sunspot groups were visible. The lower the Sun got, the more it became vertically compressed, so when I later superimposed the filtered shots, I had to warp them a bit to make sure they matched the outline.

[Isa Luna]

Very cool !

[Hillbillygirl]

That is awesome Doug. Very nice results, and thanks for sharing.

[aubintbay]

Neat stuff!! Great results. You dont see something like this often.

[Yisehaq]

Very Nice!!

[JustinRyan215]

Amazing!

I am so pissed, and jealous that we couldn't see the eclipse from the east coast! I love that you even captured the sunspots! Supercool!