Sunday, May 20, 2012

Partial Eclipse of the Sun


 Today as the sun was eclipsed I set up my auto darkening welding helmet for it's darkest setting and greatest sensitivity to look at the eclipse.  As you can see above, the inside of the helmet, when darkened, reflects the light back.  To be able to see the images clearly I had to have the sun reflect into a dark reflection like the lens or the back head strap.   ( This artsy picture is for you Jennifer!)


Here is a picture where you see the reflection behind the camera and the sun in the head band.   Some of the pictures below are taken using the zoom and centering on the black spot made by the lens lens reflection as below.  Others are magnified off of the head band reflection.

In this picture and the one below, there is a false reflection you see on the left.
Light clouds (Haze) started moving  over the sun an as the time went on the sun became obscured to the point that the welding helmet would not darken immediately.  Soon after this picture was taken we could not watch the eclipse any longer.

4 comments:

jenrust said...

this is so cool! I didn't take any pictures of the eclipse!

laura said...

did you have to use the helmet or could you have just looked at the flip out display? did the sun wash out the camera? anyway, no eclipse here, so cool to see pix of it!

Mom and Dad said...

Laura:
I could have taken the lense out of the hood and held it to the camera lense but I was too lazy. About an hour before the sun looked round so I thought it would be ok. as it turned out when I wasn't straight in line the curve of the outer safety lense distorted the shadow from the moon. I think!

Mom and Dad said...

Laura:
I could have taken the lense out of the hood and held it to the camera lense but I was too lazy. About an hour before the sun looked round so I thought it would be ok. as it turned out when I wasn't straight in line the curve of the outer safety lense distorted the shadow from the moon. I think!