Solar – Crayford Manor House Astronomical Society Dartford

Making a Solar Filter for my Skywatcher 190MN

5th July 2022

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NEVER LOOK AT THE SUN DIRECTLY. Please click here for solar observing safely.

My Skywatcher 190MN telescope has a very wide field of view I can easily fit the full Moon or Sun on the chip, so I thought I'd get myself some Baader solar Safety Film and make myself a solar filter - the video below shows how i made it and shows some early results. Check-out our solar section for more images.

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Solar Observing at Hall Place Summer 2019

19th August 2019

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A big thanks to everyone who supported both of the recent Hall Place Solar Observing events which were an exciting mixture of hide and seek as far as the sun was concerned, but both in their own way very successful.

We had sideways rain at 1100 yesterday (18th August 2019), so we set displays up indoors for about half an hour, after which we relocated outside and never looked back.

Even the sun cream got an airing!

It was very encouraging to meet a couple of extremely bright 8 year olds asking / answering some great questions - future members I'm sure.

These things don't happen by accident so for anyone who supported the two events with equipment, transport, setting up or engaging with the public, a huge thank you.

We will be back in the Winter for the pre- and post- Christmas Stargazing events and should consider any suggestions / fresh ideas to make these as engaging and informative as possible.

Once again, your support is greatly appreciated.

John (Chair)

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Solar Eclipse Argentina 2019

2nd July 2019

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Some members travelled to Argentina to view the 2019 Solar Eclipse, images below are from Janice McClean

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Solar Observing at Hall Place – August 2018

20th August 2018

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The Society were at Hall Place on Sunday 19 August 2018 showing members of the public the Sun using safe observing techniques and talking to people about Astronomy in general. Whilst there was a fair amount of cloud about and the Sun was playing 'hide-and-seek' the day was a massive success.

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The Society were at Hall Place on Sunday showing members of the public the Sun using safe observing techniques and talking to people about Astronomy in general. Whilst there was a fair amount of cloud about and the Sun was playing 'hide-and-seek' the day was a massive success.

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Solar Eclipse 2010 Easter Island & Hao Atoll, French Polynesia

11th July 2010

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A number of members went out to Easter Island and Hao Atoll to watch the 2010 total solar eclipse on July 11, 2010. This is obviously a very remote area but the locals were well prepared and treated us astronomers really well. It was touch and go at times as to if the cloud would intervene but we struck lucky and saw the eclipse. Overall a very memorable trip.

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Video shows a few minutes before, during and after Eclipse and shows how the lighting levels change as the Sun becomes obscured

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Wide angle video of the eclipse taken by Crayford Member Val

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Images by Arthur Cockburn

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The pictures were taken at Hao Atoll French Polynesia, about 700 miles from Tahiti.
Canon 30D, 500mm mirror lens [35mm equivalent 800mm] f 8.8

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The face on this unusual clock splits and rotates on the hour, exposing the inner workings, discovered by a member whilst on their eclipse trip in a hotel on Easter Island

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Solar Eclipse 2009 July 22, China

22nd July 2009

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There were no obvious prominences for this eclipse and cloud almost spoiled it, however we were lucky and the cloud cleared or thinned out for the duration of totality, Venus was clearly visible overhead.

Eclipse observed by half a dozen members.

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Images by Mike Rushton

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Solar Eclipse 2008 August 1st, China

1st August 2008

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This eclipse was special for its colours around the horizon. There were wonderful oranges and reds all around, the clouds lit up, some dark in silhouette, some golden, glowing yellowy-orange in the distance. You could see the shadow approaching against the clouds and then rushing away as it left. A great and wonderful experience that we will all never forget.

During the eclipse it was possible to see a prominence at about 2 o’clock and the planets Venus and Mercury were easily visible.

The desert venue for this eclipse was a little windy, buffeting equipment and making imaging and video at high magnifications a little difficult.

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Totality video by Member Andy Barber. Also featuring Maddy and Martin Crow and family. Venus and Mercury are also visible.

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The video above shows the site used to observe the Solar Eclipse. Video by Andy Barber.

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Solar Eclipse 2006 Turkey & Libya

29th March 2006

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Two teams of Crayford members went to image the March 2006 total eclipse:

Libya:
Arthur Cockburn, Jean & Brian Felles, Mike Rushton and Rita Whiting

Turkey:
Andrew Barber, Martin Crow, Malcolm Gough, Keith Rickard and Julian Tworek

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Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA’s GSFC

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Images by Arthur Cockburn

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Solar Eclipse, 2005, October 3rd, Spain

3rd October 2005

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Keith Rickard travelled to Plaza Mayor in Madrid to observe the Annular Eclipse. This location was very close to the centre line of the eclipse path.

In the UK there was a partial eclipse and Honor Wheeler and Julian Tworek imaged it, Honor in white light and Julian in Hydrogen Alpha light.

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Below are some of the images Keith Rickard took with his Olympus OM1 SLR camera with a 420mm lens with a converted eclipse spectacles lens for a filter. Kodak Elite chrome 200 film was used. In the images below you can see Baily's Beads and multiple shadows of the partial eclipse phase.

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The following images were taken by CMHAS member Julian Tworek from his observatory in Sidcup, Kent. They are of the annular eclipse but are seen as partial from the UK.

The images were taken using a Coronado PST (H-Alpha) telescope mounted on a Meade LXD55 mount, taken afocally with a Canon A510 compact camera. Plenty of prominences are visible if you click on the images.

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Images by Honor Wheeler

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The following images were taken by CMHAS member Honor Wheeler from her home in Wilmington near Dartford, Kent. They are of the annular eclipse but are seen as partial eclipse from the UK.

The images were taken using a Meade ETX 105 telescope, taken afocally with a Fuji E550 digital camera (set to auto), through a 26mm eyepiece with BAADER Astrosolar safety film and yellow filter.

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Solar Eclipse 2003 Antarctica 24th November

24th November 2003

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A total solar eclipse is an unforgettable experience anywhere in the world but to stand beneath the Moon's shadow in Antarctica must surely be the most memorable.

I was fortunate to be one of the 98 passengers on board the Russian icebreaker 'Kapitan Khlebnikov' which made its way through the field ice to the Davis Sea where we were one of the first people to experience a total solar eclipse in Antarctica.
An 'inconsiderate cloud' covered much of totality giving us only a glimpse of the corona and a brief flash of the diamond ring but it meant that I could concentrate on the moon's shadow as it rushed like a huge storm cloud across the ice and stranded icebergs, and marvel at the pink and gold colours on the horizon.

For us on local 'ship time' totality occurred at 6:36am on 24 November 2003, ship time being UT +8hrs. Our position was 65º 55'S and 89º 16'E.
Valarie Stoneham

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Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA’s GSFC

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On our journey to the eclipse site we stopped briefly at the Kuerguelen Islands. Only one of these islands is large enough to attempt a landing and it was here that 3 expeditions, despatched from Britain, Germany and the United States, established stations to observe the transit of Venus in 1874.

Two members of the expedition team on the Kapitan Khlebnikov, using informaition from modern maps and Airy's report compliled in 1881, discovered the site of the US station near the location at Point Malloy. All that remained was a short brick pillar which had lost a few bricks from the top (this may once have borne an inscription) and two iron telescope foundations but they were able to measure the position accurately using a Global Positioning System.

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