{"id":1194,"date":"2016-03-09T06:51:25","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T16:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weblog.hawaiifiles.com\/?p=1194"},"modified":"2019-04-01T06:29:09","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T16:29:09","slug":"low-level-clouds-obscure-hawaii-solar-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/?p=1194","title":{"rendered":"Low Level Clouds Obscure Hawaii Solar Eclipse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/25541542182_5753c53c16_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2615 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/25541542182_5753c53c16_b-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/25541542182_5753c53c16_b.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/25541542182_5753c53c16_b-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/25541542182_5753c53c16_b-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Low level clouds obscured most of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Solar_eclipse_of_March_9,_2016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">yesterday&#8217;s (March 8) partial solar eclipse<\/a><\/strong> in Honolulu, Hawaii. The ideal location along the city&#8217;s coastline would have been spectacular had the weather cooperated in its typical, sunny fashion.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of sunshine and clear skies, eclipse viewers were disappointed to see the thick layer of clouds obscuring the sunshine. Viewers\u00a0endured and managed to get a few half decent shots of the sun going into eclipse up to about 10%. The\u00a070% maximum coverage was not obtained because the afternoon sun moved closer to the horizon and into more cloud cover.<\/p>\n<p>The cameras used to get these pictures were a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/macprohawaii\/albums\/72157649498767151\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fujifilm FinePix HS10<\/a><\/strong> with a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Marumi-MA58VND25500-MARUMI-Solar-Filter\/dp\/B0068V23KA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marumi 58mm solar filter<\/a><\/strong> (shown below) made especially for photographing the sun. The other camera used was a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/macprohawaii\/albums\/72157662388740104\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Canon Powershot S5 iS<\/a><\/strong> for the documentary shots.<\/p>\n<p>More views from yesterday&#8217;s partial solar eclipse &#8212; cloudy day in Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/25541517202_0e9a6d37e1_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2614\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/25541517202_0e9a6d37e1_b-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/25541517202_0e9a6d37e1_b.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/25541517202_0e9a6d37e1_b-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/25541517202_0e9a6d37e1_b-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/25029741874_ed74f54bc8_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2613\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/25029741874_ed74f54bc8_b-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/25029741874_ed74f54bc8_b.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/25029741874_ed74f54bc8_b-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/25029741874_ed74f54bc8_b-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Low level clouds obscured most of yesterday&#8217;s (March 8) partial solar eclipse in Honolulu, Hawaii. The ideal location along the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,9,4,44,48,54],"tags":[67,116,117,210,300,334,370,384,422],"class_list":["post-1194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event","category-hawaii","category-news","category-photography","category-science","category-weather","tag-ala-moana-park","tag-clouds","tag-cloudy","tag-honolulu","tag-obscure","tag-rain","tag-solar-eclipse","tag-sun","tag-view"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2617,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions\/2617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}