2009 Eclipse
This week's image is of course en eclipse picture, from Paul Evans, IAA:
"Just got back from China yesterday having had a fantastic trip - amazing country, one wonders where it's going next! Main purpose was of course to see the Total Solar Eclipse which I did with just one little annoyance - there was a 10 minute period of total cloud cover which included the 5mins 40secs of totality - how unlucky was that!! We did experience the most eerie darkness - far darker than any totality I've experienced before, and we witnessed the Moon's shadow racing across the sky at 2000mph or thereabouts which I have on video - I haven't even taken that out of the camera yet.
I have a gallery containing 30 shots of the in and out phases of the eclipse - I think the use of cloud as a filter makes for more atmospheric images - only in some of the later phases did I have to use a Baader filter as the cloud thinned out too much.... go here to see .
And am enclosing my favourite shot of the sequence - I thought I'd missed it - I was talking to someone and looked up to see the aircraft - fortunately I had my cable release in my hand and quickly hit the button!"
Thank you very much indeed, Paul, what an amazing experience you had!
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2009 Total Solar Eclipse form China, by Paul Evans, IAA