A quick break from weddings to show you a photograph from the partial solar eclipse in the UK this morning.
I’d been planning to photograph this for a couple of weeks and had purchased a Seymour Solar filter in preparation. I eagerly checked the weather forecast last night which claimed it would be cloud free in Higham Ferrers at 9.30am. However by 8.45am there was no sign of a break in the clouds so I decided to load everything in my car and set off in search of clear skies. The forecast showed a break in the clouds further east so I set off in that direction to find nothing but cloud, meanwhile the clouds had cleared back in Northamptonshire so I turned around and came back to find the original forecast had been right all along.
I took the main photograph using a Fuji XT-1 mirrorless camera through a Meade ETX 90 Telescope, this makes a 1200mm lens. I used a Seymour solar filter to save me from burning my retina or the camera sensor. The smaller photographs showing the final stages of the eclipse were taken with a 200mm lens and the solar filter. I used the XT-1 rather than a DSLR as it doesn’t weigh as much and a heavy camera causes problems with the balance on the telescope.
