One Day Old Crescent Moon 29th April 2006

On the 28th April I tried (like many others) to image the very new moon, but sadly due to a thin veil of cloud was unsuccessful. The following day was clear and here are the results. The slightly overexposed photograph shows clearly the EARTHSHINE where reflected light from planet earth lights up the part of the moon that's in shadow. I was pleased with this as the Maria are clearly visible. Both shots were taken with a friends EOS 20D and a 400mm Tamron lens. The next chance to see a very thin crescent new moon in the UK will be May 27th.

Toatality - Eclipse 2006

Crescent Shadows - Eclipse 2006

During the partial phases (where most of the sun is covered) the light coming from the thin crescent sun causes shadows to appear different. One of the most obvious of these happens where the light goes through small gaps through leaves in trees etc. This projects lots of tiny crescent suns on to the shadows surface.

Wide shots during totality - Eclipse 2006

Both of these photographs were taken with a Canon Eos 300d with a 15 - 55mm Std lens, managed to take some time out to actually enjoy this bit with my eyes - a sight I will never forget. You cannot compare the colours or quality of light with anything else. I was pleased with the angled shot as I managed to capture Venus also!

Composite image of eclipse 2006

This image is a composite of the whole eclipse, it is composed of pictures taken with the coolpix 4500 and the ETX 70

First Contact eclipse 2006

These are the pictures from my trip to Antalya this year. This was my second attempt at imaging a total eclipse, the first was Cornwall 1999 - which was clouded out! This was FIRST CONTACT, pic was taken using an ETX 70 with a Nikon coolpix 4500 used in eyepiece projection mode. An Astro Engineering Sol-Vu filter was used (I think these use Baader film) It was good to observe some sunspots as the sun had been blank in the few days before the eclipse. I have added the yellow tint in photoshop, as the filter gives a white image.