Date : Thu, 12 Aug 1999 17:28:06 +0000
From : Chris Richardson <chris@...>
Subject: Re: Eclipse
Hi Jonothan
Great!
When you get the images in Beeb format, it would be great if you could
let me have them to put in the 8BS library
Chris
Jonathan Graham Harston wrote:
>
> I know this is way, way off-topic, but...
>
> Wow! Wonderful!
>
> I got up early today and set up my equipment.
>
> I filled a washing bowl with water to observe the reflection. I got a
> sheet of card and put a pin-hole in it. I also stuck some tracing paper
> over the end of a tube and put a pin-hole in that.
>
> I covered up the view-finder on my camera. I marked spots on the ground
> that were lined up so I could place my camera on a pole on the spots and
> take pictures without using my eyes to line up the camera.
>
> The light cloud cover meant that there was no glare and I could take clear
> pictures showing the progress of the eclipse without being washed out by
> too great light levels
>
> Sheffield got about 92% totality. At totality it got noticably colder and
> darker. It was like a wierd dusk - half-light, but shadows were still
> short.
>
> I couldn't get the pin-hole sheet to work, but the tube worked - sort of.
> It cast a tiny image, barely big enough to see.
>
> I got some wonderful photos in the water reflection; some of the light
> effects were just impossible to see if observed directly. Some of them
> had really wierd colours, probably caused by refractions through the
> clouds.
>
> When I get them developed, I'll scan them in and put them on the website.
>
> I'm also going to scan and convert them into BBC images so they can be
> displayed on the Beeb!
>
> My neighbour's mother saw the 1927 eclipse when Sheffield was in the line
> of totality. All she can remember of it is climbing up to the top of the
> hill at Greystones with a group of friends. She'll have been 13 then.
>
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