This is the sun, taken through an eclipse filter. I was testing out settings on my camera, in preparation for the annular eclipse.
Ken rigged the binoculars to project the image, which was pretty cool. By the end, we could even see a sunspot. We'll probably use a setup like this for the transit of Venus in a couple of weeks.
But I got the biggest kick out of being able to look directly at the eclipse through the filter.
Projecting. We'll rig something to cast a better shadow next time.
Going, going...
I think this was about the maximum.
Even though the sun was getting low, you could still see a significant difference in the quality of the light when it was mostly eclipsed. Everything was strangely murky and dim.
We were with Ken's mom (we'd just had a belated Mother's Day dinner) and we set up in a parking lot just east of the coastal cloudy zone. While we were there, several people stopped by and had a look at our setup or tried out our viewing filters. It was pretty cool :).
