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2023 Annular Eclipse - Sunspot Covering Composite.jpg
This is a composite of the October 14, 2023 annular solar eclipse with a sequence of six images showing the Moon advancing across a sunspot, the largest one visible on the Sun that day.
The images are placed for a photogenic spacing, with time running forward from lower left to upper right, to reflect the Sun's motion up across the morning sky. However, the Moon advances down across the sunspot, in this set taken between first and second contacts, starting at about 10:10 a.m. MDT. The set spans an interval of just under 2 minutes. The camera was on the telescope oriented to place celestial north up in the frame.
All are 1/640 second exposures at ISO 100 and through the Astro-Physics Traveler 105mm refractor with a 2X Barlow lens for an effective focal length of 1200mm and at f/12. The filter was the Kendrick/Baader Solar Film filter, with the solar disk colourized a pale yellow in processing.
The site was Ruby's Inn Overlook at Bryce Canyon City, Utah, a site well south of the eclipse centreline.
The images are placed for a photogenic spacing, with time running forward from lower left to upper right, to reflect the Sun's motion up across the morning sky. However, the Moon advances down across the sunspot, in this set taken between first and second contacts, starting at about 10:10 a.m. MDT. The set spans an interval of just under 2 minutes. The camera was on the telescope oriented to place celestial north up in the frame.
All are 1/640 second exposures at ISO 100 and through the Astro-Physics Traveler 105mm refractor with a 2X Barlow lens for an effective focal length of 1200mm and at f/12. The filter was the Kendrick/Baader Solar Film filter, with the solar disk colourized a pale yellow in processing.
The site was Ruby's Inn Overlook at Bryce Canyon City, Utah, a site well south of the eclipse centreline.
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- © Alan Dyer/AmazingSky.com
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- 2023 Annular Solar Eclipse, Solar Eclipses

