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A lot of eclipse chasers are rightly concerned by the weather forecast for April 8. It’s looking to be cloudy or partially cloudy over some fairly large areas of the path. You’ll likely to fall into one of two groups: you’re mobile or you’re not.
Photographers of the upcoming April 8 total eclipse have much at stake. I was trying to think of an analogy for people who haven’t photographed a total eclipse previously. The closest I came up with was to imagine you’re charged with shooting the1500m Olympic final. It only lasts a handful of minutes.
With April 8 fast approaching, levels of interest in the last total solar eclipse to cross North America in the next 20 years are skyrocketing. There’s a lot of terminology that gets bandied around relating to eclipses, so here’s our guide to some of the main terms you’ll likely encounter.
We’ll be launching a new PRO feature in Photo Ephemeris Web later this week: sightline analysis. Sightline analysis starts by giving you an elevation profile between two points, but then goes much further to offer an invaluable tool for landscape and night photoraphy planning.
One solar eclipse phenomenon prized by photographers is Baily’s Beads - the “ string of pearls ” that can appear in certain circumstances around the times of second or third contact.
In certain circumstances, during a solar eclipse, instead of the light of the Sun diminishing to a single point - the classic “ Diamond Ring ” - it lingers in two places giving the elusive “ Double Diamond Ring ” effect.
“ Will you be adding solar eclipses to TPE? ” I was asked in March 2023. A good question. With two eclipses passing over North America within a year (more or less) it was high time to grasp the nettle and get to work.
In May 1836, astronomer Francis Baily travelled north in the UK to observe an annular solar eclipse. What he saw that day inspired him to write a paper which has made his name, peculiar spelling and all, part of astronomical history.
In March of this year, I spent a week in Venice. On my last day I found myself at lunch at a restaurant on the northeast side of the city, on the Fondamente Nove, enjoying the views towards Murano, S. Michele, and the Arsenale.
The annular eclipse is coming up this weekend, on Saturday Oct 14, in fact. We know many of you are planning to photograph it. And if not this eclipse, then definitely the next total eclipse on April 8 2024…
You may notice a new link in the header on this site: API. As part of expanding the functionality of our apps over the past year, we’ve been building out a set of web services to deliver a variety of astronomical and geospatial data. These services are already powering a number of…
Some notable changes to Photo Ephemeris Web in 3.7: account sign in is optional, a new start page, a new site tour, and free solar eclipse info for 2023 and 2024.