My studio window faces south-east so I was in an ideal position to set up my telescope to project the solar disc during a partial solar eclipse which reached its maximum at about 11 o’clock this morning, as the Moon passed in front of the Sun.
There was a single sunspot towards the ‘south-west’ limb of the sun.
Although I’ve messed about with these images in Photoshop and Lightroom, I think that some of the mottling in this close-up of the projected image – for instance the halo around the sunspot – are the actual granules of convection cells in the Sun’s photosphere.
Projecting the partial eclipse onto the wall at the Coffee Stop, shadow of binoculars on the right. My thanks to Zach (pictured below busy drawing) who reminded us all that there was a partial eclipse of the sun yesterday morning as we sat in the Coffee Stop at Horbury Junction.…
We’re disappointed that, with a near total eclipse due at about 9.30 this morning, cloud is covering the eastern sky but we’ve located our eclipse glasses from 1999, so, with ten minutes or so to go, I try looking towards the bright patch in the bank of cloud. I’m astonished…
I set up the telescope in the last patch of afternoon sunlight on our back lawn and catch an image of Mercury mid-way through its transit across the Sun. This is the first time that I've seen Mercury: as we're in a valley, we're never well placed to see its brief appearances…
