{"id":561,"date":"2014-10-24T13:41:59","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T17:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vaughanweather.com\/chase\/?p=561"},"modified":"2014-10-24T14:04:13","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T18:04:13","slug":"solar-eclipse-october-23rd-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vaughanweather.com\/chase\/solar-eclipse-october-23rd-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Eclipse &#8211; October 23rd 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- Awesome Flickr Gallery Start --><!-- - Version - 3.5.6 - User ID - 65051383@N05 - Photoset ID - 72157648520361317 - Gallery ID -  - Group ID -  - Tags -  - Popular -  - Per Page - 15 - Sort Order - flickr - Photo Size - NULL - Custom Size - 0 - Square - false - Captions - off - Description - on - Columns - 1 - Credit Note - off - Background Color - Transparent - Width - auto - Pagination - on - Slideshow - colorbox - Disable slideshow? - --><div class='afg-gallery custom-gallery-56' id='afg-56' style='background-color:Transparent; width:100%; color:; border-color:Transparent;'><div class='afg-table' style='width:100%'><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example456'  href='https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3955\/15431366977_b8787cd070_b.jpg' title='Nasa - OH2014-Fig04'><img class='afg-img' title='Nasa - OH2014-Fig04' src='https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3955\/15431366977_b8787cd070.jpg' alt='Nasa - OH2014-Fig04 \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/15431366977\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>Source: NASA\n\nThe final event of 2014 occurs at the Moon's ascending node in southern Virgo. Although it is only a partial solar eclipse, it is of particular interest because the event is widely visible from Canada and the USA.<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example456'  href='https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3939\/15426661800_8901ec2d80_b.jpg' title='Pre Eclipse'><img class='afg-img' title='Pre Eclipse' src='https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3939\/15426661800_8901ec2d80.jpg' alt='Pre Eclipse \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/15426661800\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>Just prior to the eclipse beginning, Sunspot AR2192 is clearly visible. The presence of this sunspot, one of the largest in the last two decades, will likely make this an interesting partial eclipse.<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example456'  href='https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3950\/15426865190_3fd03ffe1c_b.jpg' title='Solar Eclipse - 5:41PM'><img class='afg-img' title='Solar Eclipse - 5:41PM' src='https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3950\/15426865190_3fd03ffe1c.jpg' alt='Solar Eclipse - 5:41PM \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/15426865190\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>The eclipse begins in earnest with the moon beginning to creep into view.<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example456'  href='https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3943\/14992105183_c06955d281_b.jpg' title='Eclipse - 5:50PM EST'><img class='afg-img' title='Eclipse - 5:50PM EST' src='https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3943\/14992105183_c06955d281.jpg' alt='Eclipse - 5:50PM EST \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/14992105183\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>The moon begins to &quot;eat up&quot; part of the sun making it look a little like Pac-Man<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example456'  href='https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3940\/15613297352_67762c1c9c_b.jpg' title='Solar Eclipse - 5:56PM'><img class='afg-img' title='Solar Eclipse - 5:56PM' src='https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3940\/15613297352_67762c1c9c.jpg' alt='Solar Eclipse - 5:56PM \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/15613297352\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>Yep, definitely some Pac-Man action going on here<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example456'  href='https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3933\/15426252407_dbbc5fa53c_b.jpg' title='Solar Eclipse - 6:05PM'><img class='afg-img' title='Solar Eclipse - 6:05PM' src='https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3933\/15426252407_dbbc5fa53c.jpg' alt='Solar Eclipse - 6:05PM \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/15426252407\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>Sinking towards the horizon, the sun and moon appear to pass through a small veil of cirrus clouds<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example456'  href='https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5602\/15425604579_4d8478f53f_b.jpg' title='Solar Eclipse - 6:00PM'><img class='afg-img' title='Solar Eclipse - 6:00PM' src='https:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5602\/15425604579_4d8478f53f.jpg' alt='Solar Eclipse - 6:00PM \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/15425604579\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>While the eclipse was clearly visible on the cameras, to the naked eye, it was just a sunny afternoon.. with the sunlight strangely beginning to fade before dusk?<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example456'  href='https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3943\/15613094622_0fe5078e3c_b.jpg' title='Solar Eclipse - 6:08PM'><img class='afg-img' title='Solar Eclipse - 6:08PM' src='https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3943\/15613094622_0fe5078e3c.jpg' alt='Solar Eclipse - 6:08PM \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/15613094622\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>The sun and moon tango in the clouds<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example456'  href='https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3936\/15613095372_7228eee5b1_b.jpg' title='Solar Eclipse - Shooting the eclipse'><img class='afg-img' title='Solar Eclipse - Shooting the eclipse' src='https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3936\/15613095372_7228eee5b1.jpg' alt='Solar Eclipse - Shooting the eclipse \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/15613095372\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>Capturing the eclipse was not simply a case of pointing the camera at the sun and cranking down the iris while blasting the shutter speed.\n\nThe key was a special 1000x neutral density filter that dropped the light by 10 full f-stops. It's visible on the center lens.<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example456'  href='https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3938\/15609582251_e6ab6071f9_b.jpg' title='Solar Eclipse - 6:15PM'><img class='afg-img' title='Solar Eclipse - 6:15PM' src='https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3938\/15609582251_e6ab6071f9.jpg' alt='Solar Eclipse - 6:15PM \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/15609582251\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>The moon approaches 40% coverage.<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example456'  href='https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3932\/15609582791_3d6c90e93d_b.jpg' title='Solar Eclipse - Two Telephoto Lenses'><img class='afg-img' title='Solar Eclipse - Two Telephoto Lenses' src='https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3932\/15609582791_3d6c90e93d.jpg' alt='Solar Eclipse - Two Telephoto Lenses \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/15609582791\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>I hate switching lenses, this especially becomes a problem when your zoomed in because reacquiring your target slows you down substantially.\n\nSo instead of jumping between the 70-200 and 400mm + 2x converter I just used two bodies. I kept the 400mm with the extender on my more powerful 5DMKIII and the 70-200 on my T4i. This allowed me to play around without having to do much else than fiddle with the camera body.\n\nI kept my old Canon XSI hanging on my shoulder for other shots between the eclipse action such as this one.<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example456'  href='https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5603\/15425607879_63c4fbc997_b.jpg' title='Solar Eclipse - 6:20PM'><img class='afg-img' title='Solar Eclipse - 6:20PM' src='https:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5603\/15425607879_63c4fbc997.jpg' alt='Solar Eclipse - 6:20PM \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/15425607879\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>The eclipse, nearing 50%, begins to descend below the horizon and out of view.<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example456'  href='https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5615\/15613097572_df5ba554b6_b.jpg' title='Solar Eclipse - 6:20PM'><img class='afg-img' title='Solar Eclipse - 6:20PM' src='https:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5615\/15613097572_df5ba554b6.jpg' alt='Solar Eclipse - 6:20PM \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/15613097572\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>The eclipse is now quickly vanishing at the horizon line<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example456'  href='https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5615\/15612264185_dbabe39f8b_b.jpg' title='Solar Eclipse - 6:21'><img class='afg-img' title='Solar Eclipse - 6:21' src='https:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5615\/15612264185_dbabe39f8b.jpg' alt='Solar Eclipse - 6:21 \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/15612264185\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>In less the minute little is left of the sun and moon<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example456'  href='https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3952\/15613098912_09270d8510_b.jpg' title='Dusk'><img class='afg-img' title='Dusk' src='https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3952\/15613098912_09270d8510.jpg' alt='Dusk \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/15613098912\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>As the eclipse vanished from view, I took this shot of my gear at the side of the road. I also took off the 1000X filter and left it on my hood. It was slowing down my shutter speed way too much in the dim light.\n\nAll in all it was a fun event, a little underwhelming, but eventually, a total eclipse will come our way!<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><!-- Awesome Flickr Gallery End -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,44,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-weather","category-partial-solar-eclipse-october-23rd-2014","category-space-weather"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4sMpj-93","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaughanweather.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaughanweather.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaughanweather.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaughanweather.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaughanweather.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vaughanweather.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":563,"href":"https:\/\/vaughanweather.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions\/563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaughanweather.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaughanweather.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaughanweather.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}