Todd Thomas (@toddthomas@mastodon.social)

Glad I persevered through technical difficulties to view today's #eclipse through my #telescope using a white light solar filter.

Had a really tough time photographing it through the eyepiece with my iPhone. My best shot is still somewhat out of focus, and also long past the maximum point of the eclipse, but you can still see some of the intriguingly-shaped #sunspots to the right of the #moon's limb.

A Celestron Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope with a solar filter is mounted on tripod in the side yard of a house. The scope is pointed to the right and behind the photographer, at the sun. In the background, a clear blue sky is visible behind a Silver Maple tree and above a neighboring house’s roof. Directly behind the telescope is a raised vegetable bed which provided a crop of lettuce, tomatoes, and tomatillos this season. It is covered with felt insulation for protection against the previous night’s freeze.

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A Celestron Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope with a solar filter, mounted on a tripod, stands in the side yard of a house. It’s pointed at the sun, which is seen in a clear blue sky beyond the scope. In the yard near the scope are some of the last flowers of the season, as well as some dried sunflower stalks standing tall, their seed heads still providing food for local birds.

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A view of the sun towards the end of the solar eclipse on Saturday, October 14th 2023, taken with an iPhone through the eyepiece of a telescope equipped with a white-light solar filter. The circular edge of the moon is still slightly obscuring the left side of the sun, looking as though a small bite has been taken out of the sun. The unobscured portion of the sun is whitish, turning to pale orange towards its limb. Some sunspots can be seen as grayish patches. Some greenish halos are visible against the black background—these are artifacts of the coating on the eyepiece’s lenses.

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