Total Solar Eclipse, 21st Aug 2017

The following pictures were taken during the Partial and Total phases of the 2017 Eclipse in the USA at a location near Glenville, North Carolina. Many thanks to my Aunt and Uncle, Margie and Richard, for the opportunity to see and experience this eclipse! The pictures were taken using a Canon 40D mounted onto the back of a Borg 89ED Refracting Telescope with a 1.4x field flattener/focal Extender (840mm focal length).

Note that the first shot in the series is a frame taken from video so not optically great but just brings the eclipse into perspective and shows the cloud that had already started to interfere during totality,

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The following are selective cropped zooms from the above images...

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Remember the Total Eclipse from Cornwall in 1999? I did actually see something and one shot in particular came out very well indeed: Eclipse 1999.

Martin Mee
Last modified: 00:54 Thu 21 Sep 2017