Partial Solar Eclipse
Taken by Peter Lowenstein on September 1, 2016 @
Mutare, Zimbabwe
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The accompanying time-lapse shows the entire partial solar eclipse as viewed from Mutare from 09.31 to12.52 LT (07.31 and 10.52 UT) on Thursday 01 September 2016. This was compiled from 45 still images taken at five minute intervals using a hand-held Panasonic Lumix DMC TZ60 camera in sunset scenery mode with an improvised solar filter consisting of a small disk of completely exposed x-ray film attached to the front of the x 60 zoom lens barrel with household sticky stuff. Pointing and tracking the camera by hand to obtain a level, centered and steady shot each time was no easy task. Each of the selected images then had to be post-processed to obtain exact registration. The resulting animation in which motion is speeded up about 500 times is quite fascinating. Because the photographs were all aligned with the horizontal artificial horizon in the camera and the two objects being photographed moved along an arc in the sky, they appear to rotate. What is also interesting is that the Moon does not pass straight across the face of the Sun but dips in the middle resulting in only 70% coverage at maximum eclipse.
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