I took a few pictures. I stood out in the -3 degree F cold for almost an hour and the battery died right before totality! Grrr. I did see a hint of turquoise, and it can be seen slightly in picture #4. It looked better in person.
Lovely photos. I wish we could have seen it here, but it’s the middle of the afternoon.
cymk, that’s really eerie. If I didn’t know my friend was nearly computer illiterate, I’d swear you were her! Maybe you two should get together (though not in my presence…please! I can only handle one such “unique” individual at a time.)
It’s been partly cloudy here. I had a nice clear view when the moon was about half covered, but as it approached totality clouds started drifting across it, so my view of the total eclipse was intermittent at best.
I just might take you up on that if it weren’t for the possibility that the earth will indeed be destroyed by the eclipse.
and if I weren’t married. 
I just got in from outside, and it’s freaking cold here. It was worth enduring the cold, though, IMHO. The Geeklings (my kids) learned something, too, so all in all it was a good night.
I just have to say dang you guys take good pics.
It’s raining like a bitch here tonight. I didn’t see a thing. Bah. 
It’s clear here. I also saw a meteor but it burned out before I could get the Geeklings to see it. The meteor was somewhere to the west in the general vicinity of Orion as I was looking at the sky (I’m in PA). Anyone else see it?
Look at it this way… we have a full moon; you have a full sun! 
Awesome!
I didn’t see any turquoise where I was. Great photos!
Very good. Care to share your equipment list and technique?
Actually we don’t even have that. It’s overcast and it looks like there may be another summer thunderstorm brewing.
Here, the clouds parted briefly just at the start of totality. We had a short but nice view, which the clouds soon covered up again. A bit disappointing, but a lot better than nothing.
I took a bunch of pictures too. I’m too tired to process/sort all of them now, but I picked a couple select ones. One in this album is during the partial phase, and the other is during totality. The totality picture has the bright star Regulus in the upper right corner.
http://picasaweb.google.com/aerodave/Astro
If I add more to this album later, I’ll update the watchers of this thread. I plan on merging some over- and underexposed shots of the partial phase together to get a high dynamic range image that will show detail in the lit portion and shadowed portion at the same time. Sounds like something to do tomorrow =)
GaryM, Boscibo, Aerodave, those shots are amazing. Thanks for sharing. Course, I now feel really jealous…
Sony H9 and a tripod. I shot with it on aperture priority because that is where the pictures looked best; it was too cold to take off my gloves and mess with settings. Not very professional, I know. THanks.
In my case, I used a Pentax K100D, and a Sigma 70-300mm F4-5.6 lens. The lens is actually not a super high-quality piece, but I’m mostly pleased with it. I do, however, suspest it’s the weak link in my astrophotography chain.
I just set it up on a sturdy tripod, used a little trial and error to settle on the right manual exposure settings. Once I figured out what was properly exposed, I bracketed by 1-2 stops over- and under-exposed for each shot (by changing shutter speed), so I could make sure I had it covered. It also will permit me (as I mentioned above) to go back and merge these shots into a high-dynamic-range image.
The moon is actually an easy target. It’s got a good brightness that allows for reasonable exposure settings. (For the partial phase, I was using typically 1/30 sec, f/8, ISO 200, which is a lot like shooting in a well-lit room). Technique changes a lot for dimmer sky objects, like stars and nebulae…but you almost shoot the moon like you would any other object. I do use manual exposure settings though, because the bright moon against the very dark sky can easily fool the cameras light meter. In fact, waching the meter change as I moved the moon around the viewfinder trying to center it showed that camera was swinging through a good 2-3 stop range. That’s far too much to allow it to make decisions on its own. It appears that Boscibo had good results with aperture-priority mode…I’ll just chalk that up to the Sony having a smarter light meter than the Pentax.
I’d love to mount the camera body to my telescope, but all I have is a Dobsonian, and thus no ability to track. I have to limit my sky exposures to about 2 seconds as it is before things blur…the extra magnfication of the telescope would only make that worse without a motorized mount.
Gorgeous pics! #2 son and I watched on and off until about 9:45pm (bedtime). The moon was shadowed almost halfway across and then the light (?) changed and it began to glow that very cool orange color. The one time I wish there was MORE dust in the atmosphere!
I couldn’t stay up to watch the denouement.