Annular eclipse from the edge of the track
Taken by Judy Anderson on October 14, 2023 @
Santa Fe NM, 35.78692 latitude, -105.80870 longitude, 10,285’ elevation
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Camera Used: Canon Canon EOS 80D
Exposure Time: 1/800
Aperture: f/22.0
ISO: 100
Date Taken: 2023:10:14 12:44:54
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October 14, 2023 was a great day: an annular eclipse viewed from the edge of the annular-eclipse track! I’ve seen annular eclipses before; the Sun is almost but not quite covered by the shadow of a Moon that is just a little too far away from Earth to completely obscure sunlight. Thus, the sun shines around the edge of the shadow of the moon and makes a ring, or annulus.
However, I had never observed such an eclipse from the edge of the track of annularity, where there would be no ring. Instead there would be a series of Baily’s beads that would complete the ring, by filling in the gap in the incomplete circle of the ring with a series of dots. Those dots would be tiny bright “beads” of various sizes, from the Sun’s light that was visible peaking out between the mountains on the limb of the moon. I really didn’t know how many beads, how long they’d last or how they might move around the circumference of the Moon’s shadow over the Sun.
The view was phenomenal! A really exciting and dynamic show of bright beads that started in the upper pole of the sun and moved around the edge of the sun clockwise toward the lower pole. Sometimes the brilliant beads were strung out on a connecting “thread” of crimson-red chromosphere, the lower atmospheric layer of the Sun. The chromosphere is the base of the wispy plumes of the solar corona that we know and love in a total eclipse of the Sun)
To add to the thrill of the morning, a bunch of prominences, bright bursts of chromosphere above the lower atmosphere, were active on the edge of the Sun. Prominences take many flame-like or looping configurations above the chromosphere; in this eclipse where we were located, they appeared between the “horns” of the incomplete ring of the solar annulus, completed by Baily’s beads strung along the chromosphere.
Here are a few of the images, taken without a filter, at very fast exposures (1/800-1/3200 of a second) ISO 100, at f22) using a 150-600mm Sigma telephoto lens on a Canon 80D.
As always, the connections with people who shared the view with us, and those that intertwined us and the celestial bodies we saw in their dance this morning, are special memories. Our view from a beautiful hillside of yellow-gold aspens at 10,285 feet elevation, are what I will recall when I see these images. Thank you to everyone, with us and living or passed away from us, for a great experience. And hugs to Jay Anderson of eclipsophile.com who brought us all to that meeting with the Sun and the Moon as they made our day up the mountain from Santa Fe!
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