About 25 years ago as a kid I had looked up future total eclipses and had marked the 2017 eclipse as the one I would see. I’d be old enough to travel when I please, it would be summer and it would be at a location that’s easy to go to (I visit the US […]
2017 Total Solar Eclipse @ Madisonville, TN
August 31, 2017 // by ecuador
Daytime polar alignment (for the 2017 Solar Eclipse of course!)
August 14, 2017 // by ecuador
If you are going to try and capture the solar eclipse with an equatorial mount, you are probably concerned about how you are going to do the polar alignment (unless you are lucky enough to be able to set up the previous night). Sky & Telescope seems to have popularized a method which uses a […]