Solar Gallery
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1st August
2008 - York. This image of first contact (just visible at
the top) was taken at 9:29 and 9 seconds (BST). It is
possible that first contact could have been visible up to
a minute or so before this point, but my telescope needed
adjusting to reach focus with the camera. The scope was a 80mm F5 refractor with Baader solar film filter. A Canon 350D didgtal SLR was attached at prime focus with an exposure of 1/2000s. Image by Paul Buglass. |
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1st August
2008 - York. This image after first contact was taken at
9:31 and 49 seconds (BST). The "bite" out of
the Sun's disc is clearly visible at this point The scope was a 80mm F5 refractor with Baader solar film filter. A Canon 350D didgtal SLR was attached at prime focus with an exposure of 1/2000s. Image by Paul Buglass. |
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1st August
2008 - York. This image was taken at 10:27 and 17 seconds
(BST). The "bite" out of the Sun's disc is near
the maximum 18% coverage at this point The scope was a 8" SCT at F6.3 refractor with Baader solar film filter. A Canon 350D didgtal SLR was attached at prime focus with an exposure of 1/4000s. Image by Paul buglass. |
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1st August
2008 - York. This image was taken at 10:34 and 15 seconds
(BST). The "bite" out of the Sun's disc is just
past the maximum 18% coverage at this point The scope was a 8" SCT at F6.3 refractor with Baader solar film filter. A Canon 350D didgtal SLR was attached at prime focus with an exposure of 1/1600s. Image by Paul Buglass. |
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1st August 2008 - near Selby. This image was taken by John Roberts using his PST Hydrogen Alpha telescope. He was fighting the clouds but was able capture this image near the time of peak coverage. |
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29th March 2006 - Belek, Turkey. As the partial phase nears totality, the shaddows cast by small holes in a roof support cast small crescent imageson the ground. The same could be done by holding up your hand to make small holes between your fingers. |
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29th March 2006 - Belek, Turkey. We saw shadow bands dancing over the ground in the last 60 seconds before totality, then as the diamond ring faded, and the eclipse began,the sky was a deep twilight darkness with orange glows to the eastern horizon. Venus had been clearly visible for a minute or two before totality, but after totality began we could also see Mercury half way between the eclipsed Sun and Venus. |
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29th March 2006 - Belek, Turkey. I removed the Baader solar filter from my little 80mm F5 refractor I had been using to observe the partial phases and was awestruck by the view of the photosphere, prominances, and corona through the eyepiece. I held my digital camera to the eyepiece and took this a-focal image which has come out quite well, but is nothing comapred to the view by eye which could see the details which are over exposed in this shot. |
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29th March 2006 - Belek, Turkey. The position of my hand held camera changed slightly in relation to the eyepiece, and the exposure of the upper part of the corona was reduced having the good fortune to show one of the small prominences visible in the photosphere. |
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29th March 2006 - Belek, Turkey. A close up showing the small prominence. Through the eyepiece it was a bright pinky red and showed fine details and branching like structure. |
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29th March 2006 - Belek, Turkey. After 3rd contact we all posed for a group shot. Absolutely no effort was needed to smile !!!. |
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29th March 2006 - Belek, Turkey. Martin Whipp has produced a rough cut of 16 of his images covering just before 2nd contact to just after 3rd contact. The exposure has been varied to show the corona and diamond ring at different times. Excellent images !!! More to follow. |
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29th March 2006 - Belek, Turkey. Martin Whipp has produced a final version of 40 of his images covering just before 1st contact to just after 4th contact. The exposure has been varied to show the corona and diamond ring at different times during totality. This image is available as a postcard from YAS, so buy yours at one of our meetings, or send us an e-mail for instructions on how to order one by post. |
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This fantastic
image of a large Sunspot group was taken by Neil Ward at
the 2005 Kielder Star Camp, He used a digital camera held
to the eyepiece of a Skywatcher 80ED refractor and full
aperture Baader solar filter. Date & Time:
11.09.2005 at 12:02pm. © Neil Ward 2005 |
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This close-up
image of a large Sunspot group was taken by Neil Ward at
the 2005 Kielder Star Camp, He used a digital camera held
to the eyepiece of a Skywatcher 80ED refractor and full
aperture Baader solar filter. Date & Time:
11.09.2005 at 12:02pm. © Neil Ward 2005 |
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The October
3rd Annular Eclipse as made into an animated GIF. Each
image was taken by Mike Pringle, and Martin Whipp
processed them into an animation showing the progress of
the annular eclipse. For a meduim resolution video of this animation click here (460KB) For a high resolution video of this animation, and you have Broadband, click here (Beware 1.9MB) |
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The October 3rd Annular Eclipse as seen by Martin Whipp in Tunisia. Click on tihs image for the full sized image (about 100kB). |
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From left to right: "Laughing" Mike Sanderson, "Smiling" Martin Whipp, and "Grinning" Mike Pringle in the Tunisian desert on the 3rd of October 2005 for the annular eclipse. |
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Martin Whipp is all set-up ready for the October 3rd Annular Eclipse in Tunisia. His Sony DV video camera with zoom lens and Thousand Oaks solar filter. The hat came from Australia by the way, just to see the eclipse :-). |
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The October 3rd Annular Eclipse as seen projected on white card through a pair of binoculars in Tunisia. |
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Mike Pringle in desert garb for the October 3rd Annular Eclipse in Tunisia. |
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Mike Pringle's set-up for the October 3rd Annular Eclipse in Tunisia. His Fuji S2 digital camera attached to a 70mm Maksutov "lens" with solar filter. |
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Martin Whipp's set-up for the October 3rd Annular Eclipse in Tunisia. His Sony DV video camera with zoom lens and Thousand Oaks solar filter. |
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Martin Whipp's "welding glass" solar viewer at the October 3rd Annular Eclipse in Tunisia. |
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Nick's set-up for the October 3rd Annular Eclipse in Tunisia. This shows the simple approach using a hand-held solar viewer in front of a mini tripod mounted digital camera. |
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Neil Ward took
this image of the Sun in Hydrogen alpha light taken
through John Robert's PST using his Sony Ericsson Mobile phone with built in 2M camera. The image was taken on Friday 8th July 2005 with the following camera settings: Exposure 1/80 sec, Shutter Speed 1/60 Sec, f2.8, ISO 100, Exposure mode Auto, White Balance Auto, Digital Zoom Ration 1.0. A prominence can be see at the bottom of the image, and an enlargement is shown below. |
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12th May 2005 - An image taken by Paul Buglass using a Skywatcher 80ED refractor, Baader solar film full apreture filter, 12.5mm Plossl eyepiece, and a Fuji MX1700 digital camera imaging a-focally, hand held, through the eyepiece. This image shows the full solar disc with 4 groups of Sun spots visible. The Sun is showing high activity given we are well towwards Solar minimum. |
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12th May 2005 - An image taken by Paul Buglass using a Skywatcher 80ED refractor, Baader solar film full aperture filter, 12.5mm Plossl eyepiece, and a Fuji MX1700 digital camera imaging a-focally, hand held, through the eyepiece. This image shows a close up of on eof the Sun spot groups from above. |
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8th June 2004 - An Observation by Lyn Smith (Solar section director) of the transit of Venus. Comparing this image to Martin's Mercury tranist image below, the much larger size of Venus compared to Mercury is apparent. |
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7th May 2003 -
An Observation by Martin Whipp of the transit of
Mercury. Almost the whole transit was clouded out
from the York area, but there were a few small gaps in
the clouds from time to time as the tranist neared the
mid point. As the end approached, we were pleased to see the clouds depart, and the final stages, 3rd and 4th contact, were well observed. Martin was able to take this image with his digital camera, held to the eyepiece (a-focal imaging), of one of the telescopes we were using that day. The telescopes was obviously equiped with a solar filter to allow safe observation of the Sun. |
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16th January 2005 - An Observation by Lyn Smith (Solar section director) of a northern hemisphere sunspot which is pretty spectacular. Image taken with the Olympus Camedia 4000 digital camera, 5" Celestron Nexstar SCT and glass solar filter, 25 mm eyepiece. |
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Image of the Sun taken by Lyn Smith using an Olympus Camedia C 4000 digital camera held to the eyepiece of a 150 mm Celestron Nexstar SCT. |
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Image of the Sun taken by Lyn Smith using an Olympus Camedia C 4000 digital camera held to the eyepiece of a 150 mm Celestron Nexstar SCT. |
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Image of the Sun taken by Lyn Smith using an Olympus Camedia C 4000 digital camera held to the eyepiece of a 150 mm Celestron Nexstar SCT. |