Thursday, 20 April 2023
The day we've all been waiting for - a total solar eclipse. This will be our second total eclipse - the first one was in Oregon in 2017. (And we're preparing for the 2024 eclipse that will traverse the United States from Texas to Maine.)
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| We were anchored just off Exmouth, on the center line of totality. The beach at Exmouth had a lot of land-based eclipse viewers. |
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| We were joined off-shore by the Pacific Explorer, a 2000-passenger cruise ship with 140 eclipse-viewers on board on a Sky & Telescope eclipse cruise. |
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| Lon took this picture of me at my "eclipse station". I took all my photos with hand-held cameras, since I thought that the ship's movement would make keeping an image in a camera on a tripod difficult. Turned out I could have used a tripod, but then I didn't have to cart it around for a month for a single day's use! |
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| The eclipse sequence. Click on the photo to view a larger version. |
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| Totality. Unfortunately, I have not figured out, after years of trying, how to force my "little camera" (Canon PowerShot SX720 HS) to focus at infinity. |
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| Exmouth was a US Navy communications base in World War II. The array of antennas for submarine communications is still there. |
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| Tonight was Australian BBQ night on board the ship with carved fruits decorating the buffet table. |
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