Partial Solar Eclipse - October 14, 2023
| Object | Solar eclipse, partial (60% max, left frame middle row) | |
| Telescope (Photo) | Televue 85mm refractor @ f/7 on Celestron Evolution Mount (alt-az) | |
| Telescope (Guiding) | N/A | |
| Camera (Photo) | Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra cell phone, mechanically held (afocally) to Televue Nagler 31mm eyepiece | |
| Camera (Guiding) | N/A | |
| Exposure Detail | Montage of 12 frames over the duration of the eclipse, 5x digital zoom applied at cell phone; processing w/ Corel PaintShop Pro 2023 | |
| Location | Quilted Starfields Observatory, Chiefland, FL (N29.406, W82.859) | |
| Date | 10/14/2023 | |
| Comments | This is a sequence (L-R,T-B) of the solar eclipse from October 14, 2023, from Chiefland, Florida. The sun was about 60% covered by the moon at mid-eclipse, which roughly corresponds to the left-most shot in the second row. There are sunspots visible in most of these frames, the most prominent of which is at about 2:00 and about 1/3 of the way towards the sun's center. To build the montage required hand-rotating and hand-aligning each shot with reference to the "master" or last shot in PSP. |