Mangshi, China
24°26'48.51" N, 98°34'23.39" E, 888m
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| Image | My Sets For Observation |
| Camera | Canon PowerShot S3 IS |
| Comments | my sets for the observation: Canon EOS 30D + Canon EF 70-200 mm f/2.8 L USM + Canon EF 2x II Extender + Baader Solar Filter (neutral density 5.0) + GITZO G1228 MK2 tripod; |
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| Image | My Wear For Observation |
| Camera | Canon PowerShot S3 IS |
| Comments | My wear during the whole observation... a little bit funny? Pretty hot in linder! The image was captured by myself before the first contact; |
The images below are sorted in timeline.
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Weather |
Process of the Eclipse |
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08:11:28 UT |
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| Note: 1) The label '_st' represent a stacked image. 2) The time of 'C1', 'C2', etc. are in accordance with predicted values. |
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| Image | The Sun Merely After the First Contact |
| Time | 2010/01/15 07:03:39 UT |
| Optics | Canon EF 70-200 mm f/2.8 L USM set to 200mm + Canon EF 2x II Extender, f/5.6 + 5.0 Baader ND Filter |
| Camera | Canon EOS 30D (ISO 400) |
| Exposure | 1/1250 s |
| Processing | converted from raw format; single frame processed with Fitswork V 4.25; 0.5x resized and cropped; |
| Comments | the image captured during my test of the camera thereby slightly out of focus; |
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| Time | 2010/01/15 07:27 UT |
| Optics | Canon EF 70-200 mm f/2.8 L USM set to 200mm + Canon EF 2x II Extender, f/5.6 + 5.0 Baader ND Filter |
| Camera | Canon EOS 30D (ISO 400) |
| Exposure | 1/1250 s x 2 frames |
| Processing | converted from raw format; two images of 07:27:29 UT and of 07:27:33 UT respectively stacked and processed with Fitswork V 4.25; 0.5x resized and cropped; |
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| Time | 2010/01/15 07:58 UT |
| Optics | Canon EF 70-200 mm f/2.8 L USM set to 200mm + Canon EF 2x II Extender, f/5.6 + 5.0 Baader ND Filter |
| Camera | Canon EOS 30D (ISO 200) |
| Exposure | 1/800 s x 10 frames |
| Processing | converted from raw format; totally ten images from 07:58:02 UT to 07:58:12 UT stacked and processed with Fitswork V 4.25; 0.5x resized and cropped; |
| Comments | The silhouette was heading towards the two groups of sunspots. |
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| Time | 2010/01/15 08:01:43 UT |
| Optics | Canon EF 70-200 mm f/2.8 L USM set to 200mm + Canon EF 2x II Extender, f/5.6 + 5.0 Baader ND Filter |
| Camera | Canon EOS 30D (ISO 200) |
| Exposure | 1/800 s |
| Processing | converted from raw format; single frame processed with Fitswork V 4.25; 0.5x resized and cropped; |
| Comments | occultation of the first group of sunspots; |
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| Name | The Uneven Lunar Limb |
| Comments | cropped from the upper image in full resolution; |
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| Time | 2010/01/15 08:06 UT |
| Optics | Canon EF 70-200 mm f/2.8 L USM set to 200mm + Canon EF 2x II Extender, f/5.6 + 5.0 Baader ND Filter |
| Camera | Canon EOS 30D (ISO 200) |
| Exposure | 1/800 s x 5 frames |
| Processing | converted from raw format; totally five images from 08:06:18 UT to 08:06:20 UT stacked and processed with Fitswork V 4.25; 0.5x resized and cropped; |
| Comments | occultation of the second group of sunspots; |
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| Name | More Clouds |
| Time | 2010/01/15 08:11:28 UT |
| Camera | Canon PowerShot S3 IS (6 mm; f/5.6; 1/1614 s;) |
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| Name | More and More Clouds!! |
| Time | 2010/01/15 08:20:55 UT |
| Camera | Canon PowerShot S3 IS (6 mm; f/8; 1/1614 s;) |
| Comments | I was feeling ominous about my observation... |
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| Name | Reappearence of the Sun Several Minutes Before the Annularity |
| Time | 2010/01/15 08:31:52 UT |
| Camera | Canon PowerShot S3 IS (6 mm; f/8; 1/1614 s;) |
| Comments | I became disappointed after reckoning that the clouds on the lower right of the sun would entirely prevent me from viewing the annularity... The fact afterward have precisely demonstrated my great accuracy of estimate unfortunately. |
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| Time | 2010/01/15 08:33 UT |
| Optics | Canon EF 70-200 mm f/2.8 L USM set to 200mm + Canon EF 2x II Extender, f/5.6 + 5.0 Baader ND Filter |
| Camera | Canon EOS 30D (ISO 200) |
| Exposure | 1/500 s x 5 frames |
| Processing | converted from raw format; totally five images from 08:33:10 UT to 08:33:18 UT stacked and processed with Fitswork V 4.25; 0.5x resized and cropped; |
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| Time | 2010/01/15 08:36:56 UT - 08:37:06 UT |
| Optics | Canon EF 70-200 mm f/2.8 L USM set to 200mm + Canon EF 2x II Extender, f/5.6 + 5.0 Baader ND Filter |
| Camera | Canon EOS 30D (ISO 200) |
| Exposure | 1/500 s x 4 frames |
| Processing | converted from raw format; totally four images from 08:36:56 UT to 08:37:06 UT stacked and processed with Fitswork V 4.25; 0.5x resized and cropped; |
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| Time | 2010/01/15 08:37:59 UT |
| Optics | Canon EF 70-200 mm f/2.8 L USM set to 200mm + Canon EF 2x II Extender, f/5.6 + 5.0 Baader ND Filter |
| Camera | Canon EOS 30D (ISO 200) |
| Exposure | 1/125 s |
| Processing | converted from raw format; single frame processed with Fitswork V 4.25; 0.5x resized and cropped; |
| Comments | clouds interference; |
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| Time | 2010/01/15 08:38:20 UT |
| Optics | unfiltered Canon EF 70-200 mm f/2.8 L USM set to 200mm + Canon EF 2x II Extender, f/5.6 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 30D (ISO 200) |
| Exposure | 1/8000 s |
| Processing | Exposure decreased to -1.00 eV in the Edit Panel of ACD See Pro 2.5; converted from raw format; followingly single frame processed with Fitswork V 4.25; |
| Comments | clouds interference; chromosphere captured?? |
| Click on the image to display the full resolution image version (7.7 MB, PNG format). | |
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| Time | 2010/01/15 08:39:07 UT |
| Optics | unfiltered Canon EF 70-200 mm f/2.8 L USM set to 200mm + Canon EF 2x II Extender, f/5.6 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 30D (ISO 200) |
| Exposure | 1/800 s |
| Processing | converted from raw format; single frame processed with Fitswork V 4.25; |
| Comments | clouds interference; image slightly out of focus wierdly maybe due to inadvertent touch of the focus ring during panic; |
| Click on the image to display the full resolution image version (8.3 MB, PNG format). | |
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| Time | 2010/01/15 08:39:15 UT |
| Optics | unfiltered Canon EF 70-200 mm f/2.8 L USM set to 200mm + Canon EF 2x II Extender, f/5.6 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 30D (ISO 200) |
| Exposure | 1/1600 s |
| Processing | converted from raw format; single frame processed with Fitswork V 4.25; |
| Comments | clouds interference; image slightly out of focus wierdly maybe due to inadvertent touch of the focus ring during panic; |
| Click on the image to display the full resolution image version (7.6 MB, PNG format). | |
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| Time | 2010/01/15 08:39:20 UT |
| Optics | unfiltered Canon EF 70-200 mm f/2.8 L USM set to 200mm + Canon EF 2x II Extender, f/5.6 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 30D (ISO 200) |
| Exposure | 1/2500 s |
| Processing | converted from raw format; single frame processed with Fitswork V 4.25; |
| Comments | clouds interference; image slightly out of focus wierdly maybe due to inadvertent touch of the focus ring during panic; |
| Click on the image to display the full resolution image version (7.9 MB, PNG format). | |
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| Time | 2010/01/15 08:40:20 UT |
| Optics | unfiltered Canon EF 70-200 mm f/2.8 L USM set to 200mm + Canon EF 2x II Extender, f/6.3 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 30D (ISO 200) |
| Exposure | 1/8000 s |
| Processing | converted from raw format; single frame processed with Fitswork V 4.25; |
| Comments | clouds interference; image slightly out of focus wierdly maybe due to inadvertent touch of the focus ring during panic; |
| Click on the image to display the full resolution image version (8.0 MB, PNG format). | |
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| Time | 2010/01/15 08:40:51 UT |
| Optics | unfiltered Canon EF 70-200 mm f/2.8 L USM set to 200mm + Canon EF 2x II Extender, f/8.0 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 30D (ISO 200) |
| Exposure | 1/8000 s |
| Processing | converted from raw format; single frame processed with Fitswork V 4.25; |
| Comments | clouds interference; |
| Click on the image to display the full resolution image version (8.4 MB, PNG format). | |
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| Name | Realization of the Nightmare |
| Time | 2010/01/15 08:44:17 UT |
| Camera | Canon PowerShot S3 IS |
| Comments | The annularity was to be over within approximately 2 minutes. Given the situation, the game was already over for me... |
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| Time | 2010/01/15 08:52:48 UT |
| Optics | unfiltered Canon EF 70-200 mm f/2.8 L USM set to 200mm + Canon EF 2x II Extender, f/13 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 30D (ISO 200) |
| Exposure | 1/2000 s |
| Processing | converted from raw format; single frame processed with Fitswork V 4.25; 0.25x resized; |
| Comments | clouds interference; the first image captured since the annularity; |
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| Name | More and More Clouds Breaks... |
| Time | 2010/01/15 09:06:55 UT |
| Camera | Canon PowerShot S3 IS (6 mm; f/3.5; 1/1614 s;) |
| Comments | Clouds began reducing after the annularity... |
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| Time | 2010/01/15 09:21:12 UT |
| Optics | Canon EF 70-200 mm f/2.8 L USM set to 200mm + Canon EF 2x II Extender, f/5.6 + 5.0 Baader ND Filter |
| Camera | Canon EOS 30D (ISO 200) |
| Exposure | 1/500 s x 2 frames |
| Processing | converted from raw format; two frames processed with Fitswork V 4.25; 0.5x resized and cropped; |
| Comments | clouds interference; image slightly out of focus; worsening seeing; |
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| Name | Fewer and fewer Clouds!! |
| Time | 2010/01/15 09:34:40 UT |
| Camera | Canon PowerShot S3 IS (6 mm; f/5; 1/1614 s;) |
| Comments | I was feeling ominous about my observation... |
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| Time | 2010/01/15 09:41:57 UT |
| Optics | Canon EF 70-200 mm f/2.8 L USM set to 200mm + Canon EF 2x II Extender, f/11 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 30D (ISO 200) |
| Exposure | 1/8000 s |
| Processing | converted from raw format; single frame processed with Fitswork V 4.25; 0.25x resized; |
| Comments | clouds interference; |
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| Time | 2010/01/15 09:49:14 UT |
| Optics | Canon EF 70-200 mm f/2.8 L USM set to 200mm + Canon EF 2x II Extender, f/5.6 + 5.0 Baader ND Filter |
| Camera | Canon EOS 30D (ISO 200) |
| Exposure | 1/200 s x 3 frames |
| Processing | converted from raw format; 3 frames processed with Fitswork V 4.25; 0.5x resized and cropped; |
| Comments | worsening seeing; |
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| Image | The Sun and A Bird |
| Time | 2010/01/15 09:58:13 UT |
| Optics | Canon EF 70-200 mm f/2.8 L USM set to 180 mm + Canon EF 2x II Extender, f/5.6 + 5.0 Baader ND Filter |
| Camera | Canon EOS 30D (ISO 200) |
| Exposure | 1/200 s |
| Processing | converted from raw format; single frames processed with Fitswork V 4.25; 0.5x resized and cropped; |
| Comments | a bird apparently inside the disk; worsening seeing; clouds interference; focal length shortened inadvertently; image out of focus; |
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| Time | 2010/01/15 10:05:00 UT |
| Optics | Canon EF 70-200 mm f/2.8 L USM set to 180 mm + Canon EF 2x II Extender, f/5.6 + 5.0 Baader ND Filter |
| Camera | Canon EOS 30D (ISO 200) |
| Exposure | 1/100 s |
| Processing | converted from raw format; single frames processed with Fitswork V 4.25; 0.5x resized and cropped; |
| Comments | worsening seeing; focal length shortened inadvertently; image severely out of focus; |
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| Image | The Sun Merely Before the Fourth Contact |
| Time | 2010/01/15 10:05:32 UT |
| Optics | Canon EF 70-200 mm f/2.8 L USM set to 180 mm + Canon EF 2x II Extender, f/5.6 + 5.0 Baader ND Filter |
| Camera | Canon EOS 30D (ISO 200) |
| Exposure | 1/100 s |
| Processing | converted from raw format; single frames processed with Fitswork V 4.25; 0.5x resized and cropped; |
| Comments | worsening seeing; focal length shortened inadvertently; image severely out of focus; |
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| Image | The Sun At the Fourth Contact |
| Time | 2010/01/15 10:05:34 UT |
| Optics | Canon EF 70-200 mm f/2.8 L USM set to 180 mm + Canon EF 2x II Extender, f/5.6 + 5.0 Baader ND Filter |
| Camera | Canon EOS 30D (ISO 200) |
| Exposure | 1/100 s |
| Processing | converted from raw format; single frames processed with Fitswork V 4.25; 0.5x resized and cropped; |
| Comments | worsening seeing; focal length shortened inadvertently; image severely out of focus; |
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| Image | The Sun Merely After the Fourth Contact |
| Time | 2010/01/15 10:05:37 UT |
| Optics | Canon EF 70-200 mm f/2.8 L USM set to 180 mm + Canon EF 2x II Extender, f/5.6 + 5.0 Baader ND Filter |
| Camera | Canon EOS 30D (ISO 200) |
| Exposure | 1/100 s |
| Processing | converted from raw format; single frames processed with Fitswork V 4.25; 0.5x resized and cropped; |
| Comments | worsening seeing; focal length shortened inadvertently; image severely out of focus; |
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| Name | Clear Sky! |
| Time | 2010/01/15 10:16:19 UT |
| Camera | Canon PowerShot S3 IS (6 mm; f/5; 1/1614 s;) |
| Comments | What a mischief!!! |
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