Showing posts with label solar eclipse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label solar eclipse. Show all posts

Thursday, May 29, 2025

Sky Objects, Mostly Moon Shots


The pix in my YouTube collection are from having used mostly two point-and-shoot cameras. Incidentally, smart-phone cameras also have capabilities for taking similar sky pix.

For people who haven't considered photographing sky objects, look, up in the sky. It could be Supermoon! Build your own pic collection for day or night moons! Also, pick other sky objects that catch your fancy. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Tuesday, April 30, 2024

April 8 2024 Total Solar Eclipse (44-sec capture)

Why only 44 seconds instead of reported totality of 2 minutes and 35 seconds? Clouds interfered with and distorted the capture, eventually totally obscuring the corona after ~43 seconds. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Monday, October 30, 2023

Partial Annular Solar Eclipse Oct 14 2023, Austin


Our area (Austin) was fortunate enough to behold a partial solar eclipse, clear skies and all. Texans in San Antonio, about 100 miles to the south, got a fabulous annular eclipse because of that area being in the zone of annularity. Read the entire article and comment there, please.