{"id":77476,"date":"2022-10-25T17:21:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T16:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/?p=77476"},"modified":"2022-10-25T17:21:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T16:21:07","slug":"partial-solar-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/partial-solar-eclipse\/","title":{"rendered":"Partial Solar Eclipse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There was a partial solar eclipse visible from the UK today. I dug out a homemade solar filter I first assembled sometime in 2012! It&#8217;s a cardboard affair made using <a href=\"https:\/\/astrosolar.com\/en\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/astrosolar.com\/en\/\">Baader AstroSolar<\/a> film which looks like a kind of foil and blocks 99.999% of light. Even then, to get a photograph of the sun, you need to get a shutter speed as fast as possible to minimise the light coming into the camera. I used 1\/8000 second which is the fastest my camera will go. Focus at infinity with manual focusing, and away you go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The image above shows three different shots taken at different points during the partial eclipse. The central image was taken at about the maximum point of this eclipse &#8211; at least as viewable from where I was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next total eclipse viewable in Europe will be on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/eclipse\/map\/2026-august-12\">12th August 2026<\/a> when it&#8217;ll be best viewed from either northern Spain or western Iceland. Start planning those trips to Zaragoza or Reykjavik now! (The UK will be 90%+ covered by the sun, but won&#8217;t experience totality.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a partial solar eclipse visible from the UK today. I dug out a homemade solar filter I first assembled sometime in 2012! It&#8217;s a cardboard affair made using Baader AstroSolar film which looks like a kind of foil and blocks 99.999% of light. Even then, to get a photograph of the sun, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[1086,1087,61],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77478,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77476\/revisions\/77478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}