Too far north for totality, but we still get a 78%-coverage partial eclipse.

First picture taken a few minutes before peak with a plain smartphone camera, second picture taken a few minutes after peak with the same camera pointed through three pairs of sunglasses simultaneously.

I learned that eclipse photography should be left to the professionals, but hey, at least I have some souvenirs even if you can’t actually tell out of context why I was taking these pictures. (When I look for it, it seems like it might be a bit less glare-y in the part covered by the moon? But that might be wishful thinking.)

As for non-camera observation, I didn’t have any proper gear (I realised we were in the partial-eclipse zone not very far in advance). I settled for a couple very quick glances at the sun through two pairs of sunglasses. (As always, the dose makes the poison. The damage from that dosage level was transient and has already faded away, same as it did the couple times I glanced at the sun as a kid.) In those instants, I just managed to register that there was a clearly visible dark patch covering the top-left portion.

The general quality of the light was within normal variation.

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All in all, would have been more fun with eclipse glasses and a more suitable camera, but pretty good for what would otherwise have been a normal afternoon. And I have now officially Seen a Solar Eclipse.

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Tags:

#solar eclipse #(I was going to use ”eclipse”) #(but apparently my previous lunar-eclipse posts were specifically ”lunar eclipse”) #(so I’m going to maintain the pattern) #I think I have now fulfilled my Living Dangerously quotas for quite some time #and shall return to my usual caution #oh look an original post #I’m supposed to be doing math homework I’d better get back to that #(which also means I have not caught up on my dash and will not be doing so for a couple more hours) #(so I don’t know what liveblogging the rest of my dash is up to)