Annular Solar Eclipse of May 20, 2012
Impressions from the Grand Canyon
Wonderful view at Powell Point.
Photo taken with normal exposure as if the sun would not be partially eclipsed that moment.
Forming a small hole with your finges will work as a pinhole camera to project an image of the partially eclipsed sun.
It's getting slightly darker, and the colors become even more intense.
Ten seconds around the Second Contact when the disk of the moon moves entirely inside the disk of the sun.
View at the middle of the eclipse.
The "rest of the sun" is shining through branches of a tree and doing shadow play on the canyon wall.
Canyon view at the middle of the eclipse - somewhat longer exposed.
Odd shadow edges appear when the sun is nothing more than a fiery ring.
The Second Contact, the middle of the eclipse, and the Third Contact - and their positions in the sky.
Looking towards Hopi Point.
You will see the most beautiful colors of the canyon after sunset.
A.S.
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