Annular eclipse October 14, 2023

gmax137 · Oct 14, 2023

I was near Reno, NV. Outside the path of "totality" but managed a couple of crummy photos. It was light overcast with the clouds moving pretty fast.

With a solar filter held in front of camera:

Photo of a partially eclipsed sun against a dark sky, showing a thin bright crescent of sunlight with the rest of the disc dark.

With #5 tint mask:

Photo of a partial solar eclipse: a thin bright crescent of the sun shows through greenish, overcast clouds against a dark sky.

nsaspook · Oct 14, 2023

Too north, too rainy and too cloudy in this part of Oregon but I did see a slight dip in the mornings log data from the solar array.

Line graph of solar array data with panel_voltage in dark blue, net_energy in red, load in grey and system_energy in green, plotted against time-of-day labels on the x-axis.

Dropped out of the small morning solar energy production and the panels were in open circuit voltage monitor mode during the sun dip. The voltage spikes are the charge controller testing MPPT and finding almost no power.

chemisttree · Oct 14, 2023

I posted my pics in another thread. My pics were taken from just west of San Antonio, TX. Clouds parted just enough to see it!

gmax137 · Oct 14, 2023

chemisttree said:

I posted my pics in another thread. My pics were taken from just west of San Antonio, TX. Clouds parted just enough to see it!

Nice! we did not get the full annulus here. With the cloudy forecast, I didn't try driving northeast towards Elko; maybe I should have!

Annular eclipse October 14, 2023

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