{"id":582,"date":"2009-07-21T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weblog.hawaiifiles.com\/?p=582"},"modified":"2009-07-21T20:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T06:30:00","slug":"partially-lame-solar-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/?p=582","title":{"rendered":"Partially Lame Solar Eclipse"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Partially<\/a><\/p>\n

As far as eclipses go, this partial eclipse in Hawaii<\/a> was quite lame. The new moon did take a bite out of the old sun, but not as much as I expected. At best this partial eclipse peaked with only about 1\/8 of the sun munched away by the traveling new moon (or is the the rotating earth?). Must be a combination of both and all.<\/p>\n

I shot the photo series at Kaka’ako Waterfront Park<\/span> on Tuesday afternoon July 21. It was a bright sunshine filled Hawaii day<\/a>. Perfect sungazing weather with eye protection of course. The camera I used to get the composite was my trusty old Canon 300D SLR with 70-300 telephoto zoom lens<\/a>. On top of the lens I mounted a home made sleeve with a reflective mylar patch covering the open end. This is the same stuff used for the sun peeps sold at Bishop Museum<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Fact is I bought a rather large sheet of this material from Bishop Museum in 1991 and created the original sleeves to shoot the total eclipse on the Big Island<\/a> that year. I have saved all the sleeves and sun peeps since then and have now used them for the 3rd time. The last time I brought these out was for a 2004 partial eclipse<\/a> that I also shot from Kaka’ako Waterfront Park.<\/p>\n

In the photo above, the eclipse images were composited into one frame and color enhanced using Adobe Photoshop. See the original composite here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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