Nov 19
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Chromosphere during a Total Solar Eclipse

Solar prominences can be seen around the disk and Baily’s beads are visible to the lower left. The image is a blend of two images, one taken around the second contact and the other taken at the moment of the third contact. The image was taken during the August 21 2017 total solar eclipse in Wyoming, USA. Date and place: August 21, 2017; Castle Garden, Wyoming, USA Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III Telescope: Pentax 75 SDHF Exposure: 1/2000s Aperture: 6 ISO: 100
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Nov 19
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Total Solar Eclipse at Castle Garden

Wide angle view of the sky during the total solar eclipse of August 21 2017. Date and place: August 21, 2017; Castle Garden, Wyoming, USA Camera: Canon EOS 6D Lens: Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L Exposure: 2s Aperture: f/5.6 ISO: 100
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Nov 19
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Allsky Eclipse

Fisheye view of the sky during the total solar eclipse of August 21 2017. Date and place: August 21, 2017; Castle Garden, Wyoming, USA Camera: Canon EOS 6D Lens: Canon EF 8-15mm f/4L at 8mm Exposure: 0.8s Aperture: f/5.6 ISO: 100
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Nov 19
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The Great American Eclipse

Wide angle view of the sky during the total solar eclipse of August 21 2017. Date and place: August 21, 2017; Castle Garden, Wyoming, USA Camera: Canon EOS 6D Lens: Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L Exposure: 1.6s Aperture: f/5.6 ISO: 100
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Oct 04
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Solar Corona

The Solar Corona during the total solar eclipse in August 2017. It’s not a single image but a stack of multiple photos shot with exposure times from 1/4000 to 4s. It’s absolutely impossible to capture the whole range of brightness of the solar corona in a single exposure. You can even see the Earthshine on the Moon. The corona might look impressive in the photo but it’s not even close to the real thing. I say it again: go and see a total solar eclipse with your own eyes. Date and place: August 21, 2017; Castle Garden, Wyoming, USA Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III Telescope: Pentax 75 SDHF Exposure: 1/4000 to 4s Aperture: 6 ISO: 100
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Jul 19
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Partial Solar Eclipse in H-alpha

This Solar Eclipse was a total one, visible from Siberia. In Romania, we only saw a partial eclipse. Shooting through a H-alpha telescope made the spotless, rather dull looking, Solar disk more interesting. Date and place: August 1 2008; Bucharest, Romania Camera: Canon Powershot A60 Lens: Coronado PST and 15mm Plossl eyepiece (afocal projection) Exposure: 1/200 Aperture: 2.8 ISO: 100
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Jul 19
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Totality!

Bailey’s beads, Diamond Ring. Prominences, Solar Corona – the total phase of a Solar Eclipse is one of the most astonishing natural phenomena. For a few minutes or seconds (depending on the duration of the total phase), you’re in complete awe. You can’t hear anything, you can’t see anything else but the Sun, you can’t even move. You have to see a Total Solar Eclipse! Date and place: March 29 2006; Side/Colakli, Turkey Camera: Canon EOS 5 Telescope: homemade 80/500 refractor Exposure: 1/1000 – 2 s Aperture: 6 Film: Kodak EktaChrome E200, ISO 200
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Jul 19
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Solar Prominences

Solar prominences around the black disk of the Moon, during a total solar eclipse: a view hard to forget for anyone. Date and place: March 29 2006; Side/Colakli, Turkey Camera: Canon EOS 300 Lens: Meade ETX90 Exposure: 1/1000 Aperture: 14 Film: Kodak EktaChrome E200, ISO 200
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Jul 19
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Total Solar Eclipse

As seen from the Earth, a solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, and the Moon fully or partially blocks (“occults”) the Sun. This can happen only at new moon, when the Sun and the Moon are in conjunction as seen from Earth in an alignment referred to as syzygy. In a total eclipse, the disk of the Sun is fully obscured by the Moon. Date and Place: March 29 2006; Side/Colakli, Turkey Camera: Canon EOS 300 Telescope: Meade ETX90 Exposure: 1/125 Aperture: 14 Film: Kodak EktaChrome E200, ISO 200
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Jul 19
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Partial Solar Eclipse at Sunrise

We are all used to see a round Sun emerging at the Eastern horizon, each morning. There are some times when the Sun is not a complete circle. So was the morning of  May 31st 2013, when a partially eclipsed Sun showed up. Date and place: May 31 2003; Magurele, Romania Camera: Olympus OM-1 Lens: Pentacon 200/4 and 2x converter Exposure: 1/60 Aperture: 8 Film: Konica VX100, ISO 100
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