Solar eclipse to be seen in Western US on May 20, 2012

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can't say

Social climber

Pasadena CA

May 22, 2012 - 10:15am PT

I'm surprised someone hasn't posted this shot I lifted from FB. The shadow on the clouds is surreal

Dos XX

Trad climber

Los Angeles, CA

Topic Author's Reply - May 22, 2012 - 10:43am PT

I doubt the ^^^^ photo is legit. Cool looking, but parts of it likely photoshopped. At the very least, it appears that a shot of the galactic core (the Summer-visible part of our galaxy) has been pasted next to the eclipsed Sun. I'd like to be proven wrong, though :-)

EDIT: I just checked NASA's Astronomy Photo of the Day (APOD) pages, and nothing remotely resembling this image has been posted; if the FB photo were for real, something that spectacular would have likely made into APOD.

can't say

Social climber

Pasadena CA

May 22, 2012 - 11:25am PT

could be XX, I just thought it was very cool looking and shared it.

Dos XX

Trad climber

Los Angeles, CA

Topic Author's Reply - May 22, 2012 - 11:33am PT

It IS cool, for sure! Glad you put it up.

Here's the real deal, taken from the ISS:

EDIT: Another view, from space, taken by the ESAs Proba-2 Sun-observing satellite.

Russ Walling

Gym climber

Poofter's Froth, Wyoming

May 22, 2012 - 12:10pm PT

The quasi low tech approach

Dos XX

Trad climber

Los Angeles, CA

Topic Author's Reply - May 22, 2012 - 12:17pm PT

That's a sweet telescope setup you've got, Russ. Man, with that and dark, high-desert skies, every night could be a space-fest.

can't say

Social climber

Pasadena CA

May 22, 2012 - 12:23pm PT

This one took place back around 1990 or there abouts, our own Warbler took this shot from the wilds of La Jolla.

Russ Walling

Gym climber

Poofter's Froth, Wyoming

May 22, 2012 - 12:28pm PT

The scope is a Celestron C-90... had one bitd for looking at El Cap. I'm running a porro prism so I don't get confused as to orientation. The field of view when looking at climbers on El Cap was about 40 or 50 ft. You could see what size hook they were pulling off the rack! Cool stuff....

Then I sold it.... lived with that mistake for about 2 decades and then bought another one a few years back off of Craigs List. It happened to come with a solar filter so I busted it out, grabbed a brew and went all low tech with the iPhone. Fun stuff!

nita

Social climber

chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.

May 22, 2012 - 11:45pm PT

Thanks everybody for the pictures!!...enjoyed all of them........................... Thought about Juan durning the eclipse ..

very good blue highlighted links... copy & paste..

If you missed it, you'll have to wait until Oct. 23, 2014, where a partial solar eclipse will strike Russia and the Western United States, including California. The center of the eclipse will pass "above" the North Pole, meaning that there won't be totality anywhere on the planet, according to Wikipedia.
On Aug. 21, 2017, however, a total solar eclipse will sweep through the United States, intersecting Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, and South Carolina. Maximum eclipse will occur at about 5:16 p.m. on the West Coast and 6:47 p.m. on the East Coast, with variations between the two depending on the location and the totality of the eclipse.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_October_23,_2014

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/SE2017Aug21Tgoogle.html

edit: del cross, i'd love to go to Australia...never been.
edit...del, hhmmm, Tasmania......I wish...(-;

edit:..del...LOL....(-;

Ed Hartouni

Trad climber

Livermore, CA

May 24, 2012 - 02:19am PT

revised the image above...
and here are the 24 minutes centered on "totality"

Dos XX

Trad climber

Los Angeles, CA

Topic Author's Reply - May 24, 2012 - 09:12am PT

Really cool, Ed. A lot of hard work paid off.

mouse from merced

Trad climber

merced, california

May 24, 2012 - 09:47am PT

Edwins!
Eclipses all mortals with efforts.
Ned we say the magic word?*
(Is it Edwin or Edword?)

*that would be "bump."

drljefe

climber

El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson

May 28, 2012 - 05:41pm PT

Near the summit of Mt. Lemmon

Trad

Trad climber

northern CA

May 28, 2012 - 09:04pm PT

Here's an example of a lucky shot. I meant to bring binoculars to project the eclipse (like the above) but forgot. Oh well, hope springs eternal so I took some shots anyway and discovered later that the lens aberration (?) of a Canon point-and-shoot gave a decent image. (Admittedly, this is pretty lame compared to the other images in this thread.) Lovers Leap/South Tahoe was near the southern edge of full annularity.