photos from Thursday's partial solar eclipse

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For anyone who reads LJ but not Facebook (is that anyone these days?), here are cell phone photos I took at work using my Solarscope (they don't seem to sell the cardboard version anymore, just a pricier wooden one). This is the same apparatus I used back in November 2006 for the Mercury transit.

There was also a massive sunspot group on the face of the sun today.


Before the eclipse, just looking at the sunspots:




Here comes the moon (lower left)



















This is ~5 minutes before the peak as observed from our location:




50 minutes later:




And now towards the end:




Goodbye, moon!