Observation by Dawson: Partial solar eclipse

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Dawson

Observer

Dawson

Observed

2025 Mar 29 - 11:00

Uploaded

2025 Mar 29 - 20:12

Objects

The Sun
Eclipse

Equipment

50mm Lunt
Double stack
ASI ZWO 174MM
Skywatcher HEQ5

Location

Nottingham

Target name

Eclipse

Title

Partial solar eclipse

About this image

We did a live stream of today's partial solar eclipse from the Nottingham Astronomical Society's Observatory. One telescope was set up with a white light filter, and I sat with the 50mm double stacked Lunt fitted with an ASIZWO174MM (with IR blocking glass); unfortuantely, this was on a poorly polar aligned mount, so lots of tracking adjustments needed to be made.

I hadn't intended to make a time-lapse but given I seem to have recorded much of the eclipse, it seemed worth a go. I took a screenshot every 60 seconds from the various videos I had, cropped these, aligned them manually, and then merged those pictures into an animated gif. There were 111 pictures in total; there are various gaps when I zoomed in on limb prominences or other things, but I'm very happy with the result. I think it shows the essence of the partial eclipse in hydrogen alpha quite well. The whole broadcast we did can be found on the Society's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/NottinghamAstronomicalSociety

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