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2022-10-25: Solar eclipse today
From: Tony Oz
Date: 2022 Oct 25, 03:56 -0700
From: Tony Oz
Date: 2022 Oct 25, 03:56 -0700
Hello!
I'm watching the partial solar eclipse right now.
I'm using a half of a binocular mounted on a tripod, projecting the scenery onto a white screen. Also I've got a bit of a welding filter (DIN 9).
The first contact I saw at 09:17 UTC.
What puzzles me - I never thought that the image on the screen will be mirrored/flipped. The actual shadow entered the solar disk from "one o'clock", the image on the screen appeared at "four o'clock". That's strange (for me) because binoculars (if used in an ordinary way) do not turn the scenery...
The maximum shadowing is approximately two-thirds of the solar disk, which happened at ~10:25 UTC.
Now I have to return to my work so I will miss the remaining part of the event.
Warm regards,
Tony
60°N 30°E
