Seen from Pyramid Lake, NV 6:30PM PST May 20th, 2012,had to drive there to avoid high cirrus coming in from front approaching from coast
Photo by Stacey Watts
Canon 1D ND400 filter plus G filter
Seen from Pyramid Lake, NV 6:30PM PST May 20th, 2012,had to drive there to avoid high cirrus coming in from front approaching from coast
Photo by Stacey Watts
Canon 1D ND400 filter plus G filter
What a beautiful picture! I am sinfully jealous. The British Isles were in completely the wrong place to see anything, still less a perfect view like this. Perhaps we could get the UN to issue a decree that future astronomical alignments must be visible from everywhere …
Really nice image, perfect time capture, perfect ground spot. What focal length telephoto was used? IIRC, the camera was one of Canon’s first digitals. Kind thoughts would say that your Stacey might hace earned a nice Christmas gift update. Do look at the new Nikon 1 V1. It’s quite amazing and affordable.
Well done to Stacey Watts for a great picture and well done to Anthony Watts for taking time to be with his family, enjoy the conference!
James Bull
Wow!
Congratulations to Stacey.
It is a much better picture than the one shown on BBC
Nicely done. The timing was perfect.
That is stunning! Kudos Stacey.
Did you see the Moon’s shadow travelling across the ground as with full eclipse?
What a pity … you’d have got a much better view if the moon hadn’t been in the way!
I’m just jealous!
Steve C says: May 20, 2012 at 11:51 pm
Perhaps we could get the UN to issue a decree that future astronomical alignments must be visible from everywhere …
Which means:
a) Moving the sun further away … which would definitely solve global warming.
b) Moving the moon closer.
Apparently “the semi-major axis of the lunar orbit is increasing by 3.8 centimeters/year according to laser ranging measurements made since the 1970’s using the Apollo ‘corner cube reflectors’ deposited on the surface by the astronauts.’
Which I think means that it will increase by 1% per 100million years, as the greatest eclipse is 4% overlap, that means eclipses will cease to be seen in 400million years.
Congratulations on the glorious photography.
I’m very interested in animal reactions (primates and other mammals, birds, insects, etc) to eclipses – whether life here on earth experiences some unique “eclipse” stress-type reaction (different from that of the sun just going down at the end of a normal day) which could indicate particular sensitivity to abnormal events at astronomical scale. You will see where this could possibly lead.
Would anyone (who saw the eclipse “live”) be willing to say whether they noticed any unusual behaviour of any animals (including humans, birds etc) through the maximum annular phase, or (of course understanding exactly what was happening at the rational level) be willing to describe briefly their own subjective experiences/reaction in as objective a way a possible? Might turn into an interesting project …
(I appreciate that you might wish to snip the two paragraphs above, if they are inappropriate coming from a guest on your site – I will of course respect that, if so.)
Great picture!
And what a big sunspot! 😉
Have you felt the Global Cooling?
May I put it on my facebook page? I only have 38 friends (unless I’ve been defriended again).
Great photo. It looks professional.
Great picture. I was lucky enough to see an annular eclipse a number of years ago from my own back yard, I was about 15km off centre and observed the moon ‘roll around’ the inside of the sun. It was a 99% annular, which meant it got surprisingly dark.
Stacy, I now expect a quality shot of the transit of Venus, June 5 at around sunset for all of the US.
http://www.transitofvenus.org/june2012/where-to-be
What an adventure and what a memory y’all will have. Thanks for sharing the photo.
TimC says:
“Would anyone (who saw the eclipse “live”) be willing to say whether they noticed any unusual behaviour of any animals (including humans, birds etc) through the maximum annular phase…”
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Many years ago I witnessed a total solar eclipse. Unfortunately it was cloudy where we were, however it got quite dark. We were parked along a highway near some diary cattle, as it got dark they started heading back to their milking barns. They were somewhat confused when it became light again minutes later. It was relatively late in the day, so to them the darknes may not been too unusual to begin with.
“petermue says: May 21, 2012 at 1:59 am
Have you felt the Global Cooling?”
I feel I felt in Tokyo a LOCAL Cooling by around one degC at least for several minutes during eclipse. Somewhat amazing.
Very nice picture. it is on my facebook page with credit of course.
Well, here’s another Wow! Great work Stacey!
Great pic, thanks Anthony and Stacey!
‘Blink! Blink!’
I’m sorry, I can’t see where the USHCN weather station is situated? Can you add an arrow to point it out for me? Is the station in all that blacktop?
Surely you didn’t drive all that distance and not take pictures of the weather station?
/joking
Seriously great photo! I agree it is a professional picture! I believe it stacks right with the top eclipse pictures taken anywhere!
Peter (or any Photoshop jockey out there), would you be willing to rework the image at the link below to my specifications? I’d pay you $50. My specs are:
1. The legend around the perimeter should be much larger and changed to “Gore Resisters’ League.” (This quip ought to irritate any warmists who see it.)
2. The hands should be redrawn so they don’t exactly copy the hands in the WRL’s logo.
3. The wrists should be shackled to each other, indicating our defiance despite our suppressed and marginalized status.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y254/RogerKni/Misc/87a659ba.png
As we are talking about photos, there is an interestiing optical effect on the “North Pole” cam, on the Sea Ice page. Can anyone comment on what causes it, it doesn’t look like a glare/lens effect.
Very jealous. Travelled to Devon to see the Total Eclipse of August 1999, but was clouded out. However, totality was an amazing experience.
I don’t know why y’all keep misspelling “Annual”. Also, Eclipses were created by Mitsubishi.