11-3-13-eclipse-setup

On November 13, 2013 there was a partial solar eclipse visible from my location in South Carolina. The moon was partially covering the solar disk as the Sun was rising.  The whole event only lasted 5 minutes before it was over.

The view through the morning air was quite turbulent.  The Suns disk was wavering like the mirage you see driving down the highway on a summer’s day.

In the foreground is my ES127ED Refractor with the Canon 60da attached mounted on my Celestron Cgemdx mount.  I used a Lenovo laptop with BYEOS to record video of the eclipse. I needed to setup on the driveway at the front of my property to be able to point at the eastern horizon.

In the background is my Stellarvue SV80 ED I used to observe the eclipse visually . It was mounted on an Orion Versa-Go II Alt/Az mount.

The three solar filters, (127mm, 80mm, 8×50 finder), are homemade using Baader solar film.

Here is the image I captured through the wavering atmosphere.

Partial Solar Eclipse_11-3-13