Annular Solar Eclipse 20 May 2012

[StarDome]

Still in the USA so sorry for the delay regarding the eclipse.

The star trails shot was taken deep into Monument Valley later that evening, I spent the night out with the Navajo Indians talking about their astronomy legends.

What an awesome place!

[Jaffa007]

Amazing images!!!! What a chat that must of been!! Thanks for sharing

[StarDome]

Composite image

[Voongy]

Excellent

[Saleratus]

I happened by chance to be in Moab, Utah, about 100 miles north of you during the eclipse. It wasn't completely annular there, but what most interested me about it was the funny things it did to shadows on the ground. If you held up your fingers to the light of the partially eclipsed sun, their shadows on he ground were strangely pointed and multiplied by the unusual directions the sun's rays were coming from. I haven't heard this effect remarked upon before in relation to eclipses.

[StarDome]

You mean like this? just as we did, also made several pin hole projectors so we could watch it progress too

[StarDome]

Happy Chappy and then a shot I took deep in the valley waiting for darkness to fall, was stunning.

[StarDome]

Here is an example Taken by me during the 2006 Turkey Total Eclipse, of the phonomena you talked about Will, this was the surround around the pool casting eclipses. .

[StarDome]

Or what you may have seen are known as shadowbands.

[StarDome]

Panorama of the valley, Observing here in the evening is simply incredible, dark clear skies to die for!

[StarDome]

Got to go on the crater rim this time which was great and another panorama gives the sheer scale of the place