Thread: Solar Eclipse pics off my iphone's sh**ty cam

So I tried taking pictures of the eclipse directly from my iphone cam, and when I took it directly, well, there was just the glaring gleam of the radiant sun amidst the murky darkness of hovering clouds -





Then some clouds came in to play -




And then I tried photographing the reflection through welder glasses, and this is what I got -





Yeah, stupid partial eclipse here. Anyways...

Was this supposed to be a full eclipse?

How does your iPhone have a green light on it? Or is that something else? Neat pics though. When did the eclipse happen? Where did it happen? This is what I get for being too broke for cable TV. Hah :)

Originally Posted by Morganti

Was this supposed to be a full eclipse?

In few parts of the world there was an annular eclipse.

Originally Posted by Draco777

How does your iPhone have a green light on it? Or is that something else? Neat pics though. When did the eclipse happen? Where did it happen? This is what I get for being too broke for cable TV. Hah :)

The green light is the partial solar eclipse! Notice the clouds too in the pic(s). The sun looks green because it was photographed off the reflection of a welding lens, the first two were taken with direct exposure to the sun without a welding lens in between. Since it was a partial eclipse, the sun glared out the camera lens - you need a good camera to take eclipse pics, just any mobile's cam won't do.

This was the longest annular solar eclipse of the millennium, and the next one would be in 3043. More Details here - Solar eclipse of January 15, 2010

Just out of curiousity... what part of the world had a solar eclipse? Im out here in Japan and didnt hear anything about it. My family in the US didnt say anything either.

im in cali and i didnt hear of an eclipse

The solar eclipse of January 15, 2010 was an annular eclipse of the Sun with a magnitude of 0.9190. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partially obscuring Earth's view of the Sun. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun, causing the sun to look like an annulus (ring), blocking most of the Sun's light. An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region thousands of kilometres wide.
It was the longest annular solar eclipse of the millennium,[1] and the longest until December 23, 3043, with a maximum length of 11 mins and 7.8 seconds. (The solar eclipse of January 4, 1992, was longer, at 11 minutes, 41 seconds, occurring in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.)[2]
The eclipse was visible as only partial eclipse in much of Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Asia. It was seen as annular eclipse within a narrow stretch of 300 km (190 mi) width across Central Africa, Maldives, South Kerala (India), South Tamil Nadu (India), Sri Lanka and parts of Bangladesh, Burma and China.

here you go compliments of Wikipedia

Originally Posted by hummingbird

The solar eclipse of January 15, 2010 was an annular eclipse of the Sun with a magnitude of 0.9190. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partially obscuring Earth's view of the Sun. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun, causing the sun to look like an annulus (ring), blocking most of the Sun's light. An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region thousands of kilometres wide.
It was the longest annular solar eclipse of the millennium,[1] and the longest until December 23, 3043, with a maximum length of 11 mins and 7.8 seconds. (The solar eclipse of January 4, 1992, was longer, at 11 minutes, 41 seconds, occurring in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.)[2]
The eclipse was visible as only partial eclipse in much of Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Asia. It was seen as annular eclipse within a narrow stretch of 300 km (190 mi) width across Central Africa, Maldives, South Kerala (India), South Tamil Nadu (India), Sri Lanka and parts of Bangladesh, Burma and China.

here you go compliments of Wikipedia

WOW i can't believe you were bothered to write that or research it :laugh:

That was very greatly written and informative, so you get a +Rep and thanks from me.