Between gaps and breaks in the clouds I managed to record pretty much the whole eclipse. The filter I used gave a slight ghoating to the edge of the sun, making it look out of focus.
Category Archives: Astronomy
Eclipse
My luck held out and there were just enough gaps in the cloud to catch the start and maxima of the eclipse. It is pretty much solid cloud now, so I’m not going to see the moon leaving the sun. I’ve taken about a dozen photographs of the progress of the moon across the sun …
Solar Eclipse 2008
Today (if you are reading this in my tomorrow) or tomorrow (if you are reading this today) or at some point in the past (if you are reading this after tomorrow) Scratch that – start again. August 1st, 2008. Solar Eclipse. Moon passing in front of the sun, sky darkening, a bit like August 1999, …
Another view of the dark matter possible-detection
http://cosmicvariance.com/2008/04/21/guest-post-juan-collar-on-dark-matter-detection/ Summary – it’s good, but is it real? Could be many other things.
Dark matter detected?
Dark matter is that weird stuff that is supposed to make up about 80% of all matter in the universe. It is invisible, and pretty much non-interacting (you can’t see it, and you can’t detect it (easily) by other means). One way you might detect it is to take a very pure crystal and look …