There are a lot of sites out there to help you get going with eclipse planning this time around. This will give you a lot of links and go-to sites for that information. Happy eclipse viewing! Rule one about solar eclipses is SAFE OBSERVING. Some of the sites on this list will have their own... Continue Reading →
Annular Solar Eclipse of 14 October 2023
Not eclipses are total. Many are partial, and some are annular. An annular eclipse takes place when the angular size of the Moon in the sky is smaller than the angular size of the Sun in the sky. What makes this happen? Distances! The further away something is from your vantage point, the smaller is... Continue Reading →
10 June Annular Solar Eclipse
From NH this was a partial eclipse, but we had good weather and the opportunity to watch the sunrise with the eclipse already in progress. The choice location was one of many spots along the NH seacoast. We chose North Beach in Hampton which had easy to reach parking and plenty of locations to settle... Continue Reading →
20-21 January 2019: Total Lunar Eclipse
We have a splendid opportunity to see a total lunar eclipse this January. It will be taking place late on a Sunday night into the early hours of Monday morning. That Monday is also Martin Luther King, Jr. Day here in the USA, so many schools will not have classes that day. Eclipse timings are... Continue Reading →
HDR of Eclipse Totality
With some more time back at the regular computer, I have had the ability to merge some of the eclipse images together to make a solid HDR image of totality. This is what I call quite the Photoshop workout. This is a merge of 12 images ranging from innermost corona out to the outermost corona... Continue Reading →