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Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Photo Essay: Pictures from Yesterday’s Solar Eclipse

Yesterday was the great Solar Eclipse of 2017 across the United States.  here were others who took much better pictures, but I did capture these.  The first is holding the Solar Eclipse Sun glasses over the lens, filtering out the ultra-violet and infrared light.  The second is using just natural, unobscured, unfiltered lens.  I think these were snapped about 20 to 30 minutes before max obscuration, which was only about 70% here.  I tried to take it at max obscuration but my hand kept shaking every time I snapped.  These two were the best pictures I took.










If you want to see some professional pictures, you can go to NASA’s website.    

6 comments:

  1. Well those are better than mine.

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  2. We saw the eclipse very clearly in the UK. It was on every news channel.

    ‘The World is charged with the grandeur of God’ (GM Hopkins).

    God bless.

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  3. Touché. I'll get around to posting mine someday. But it looks like our views here were about the same as yours.

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    1. Of course this reply to Manny posted in the wrong spot.

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  4. Thanks for sharing. I particularly, from an artistic/aesthetic viewpoint, like the natural-light one, with its clouds. They're both fine mementos of this remarkable event.

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