Wednesday, December 8, 2021

Partial Solar Eclipse over Tasmania 4th December 2021

A group from the Astronomical Society of Tasmania gathered at the Mount Pleasant Radio Observatory to view a small solar eclipse in the evening of 4th December 2021 around 8pm. Clouds threatened but we got some great sights of the eclipse regardless.  I managed to take the solar shots with a smart phone through the eyepiece of a William Optics ZS70 refractor with a solar filter attached.   There were no sunspots visible but the grainy detail of the sunspots surface was visually evident seen through a Coranado PST.