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 […]
2015 Solar Eclipse @ Heaton Park, Manchester
March 20, 2015 // by ecuador
Well, that’s it for Europe until 2026. We had a nice gathering with a lot of people of all ages at Heaton Park, Manchester today, however the weather was not favorable. We did lose the sun completely near the maximum (and I don’t mean the moon covered it – it was due to thick clouds) […]