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A little change of pace here - this is a picture of the total eclipse of the sun, observed from near Hangzhou, China, in July 2009.

This picture has been published as the cover image for Astronomy magazine's Sky Guide 2012, distributed with the January 2012 issue of the magazine. You can see a small image of the cover at [link]

I photographed the eclipse with a Canon Digital Rebel XTi single-lens reflex camera operating at ISO 100 and a Vivitar 600 mm telephoto lens operating at f/11. We saw the eclipse through thin clouds that required exposures to be increased by at least 2-3 f/stops and also created a pronounced halo around bright points of sunlight.

This image is a composite of three images taken in mid-totality at 1/4 second, 1 second, and 4 seconds, respectively. The images have been combined and processed using an HDR-like process to show the texture of the coronal streamers as they extend out from the sun, becoming progressively fainter.

This image is copyright (c) by Bert Halstead, 2009.

Description
A little change of pace here - this is a picture of the total eclipse of the sun, observed from near Hangzhou, China, in July 2009.

This picture has been published as the cover image for Astronomy magazine's Sky Guide 2012, distributed with the January 2012 issue of the magazine. You can see a small image of the cover at [link]

I photographed the eclipse with a Canon Digital Rebel XTi single-lens reflex camera operating at ISO 100 and a Vivitar 600 mm telephoto lens operating at f/11. We saw the eclipse through thin clouds that required exposures to be increased by at least 2-3 f/stops and also created a pronounced halo around bright points of sunlight.

This image is a composite of three images taken in mid-totality at 1/4 second, 1 second, and 4 seconds, respectively. The images have been combined and processed using an HDR-like process to show the texture of the coronal streamers as they extend out from the sun, becoming progressively fainter.

This image is copyright (c) by Bert Halstead, 2009.