Ray Patrick

Imaging the 2023-10-14 Solar Eclipse

by Ray Patrick (other posts)

An annular solar eclipse was visible from my house today, giving me an excellent opportunity for some amateur solar astronomy. I built a simple pinhole camera out of a cardboard box and some white paper:

This produced a shadowbox image of the eclipse:

I also set up my phone to record a timelapse of the eclipse:

I began the first timelapse at 09:41, when the eclipse looked like this:

Each timelapse was about 20 minutes of real time. After the first shot, I rearranged the viewer and phone and went for the next one:

The final shot included totality at 10:36. Note how the image of the eclipse rotates with the earth!

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