The solar eclipse of October 14, 2023, was an “annular eclipse”, which happens when the moon passes entirely in front of the sun, but the lunar disk is too far from the earth to cover the entire sun, leaving a “ring of fire” around the moon. When I photographed such aneclipse i...
Tyler Greenfield
The May 20 2012 solar eclipse was to be an “annular eclipse”, which occurs when the Moon passes directly in front of the sun, but the lunar disk is too far from the earth to cover the entire sun. This leaves a “ring of fire” with the full brightness of the sun around the blac...
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Preliminary report on photographing the solar corona in 5303 å with a polaroid and a fabry-pérot interferometer during the total solar eclipse of September 22, 1968n32150* --physics--astrophysics--solar phenomenaangular momentumastrophysicscorona...
Summary: For the total solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 in Grand Teton National Park I chose a backcountry location discovered by William Henry Jackson. My shooting plan to capture this iconic shot did not involve straight photography, but rather a timel