I went down to Santa Fe to see if I could see anything interesting in the solar eclipse in October. The weather folks were telling us that the morning would start out with high clouds, and perhaps clear up around peak. But when I got out of my hotel room I saw only a few wisps of high clouds. So I knew that I could see the eclipse.
This was an annular eclipse where the moon didn’t quite mask out the sun. So the solar filter stayed on the lens, so I wouldn’t destroy the camera. And I kept my solar glasses on, so I wouldn’t blind myself either.
For those folks who were only looking through the solar glasses, I would guess that this looked a little underwhelming. But if you had a solar telescope, or a good telephoto lens with a solar filter it was interesting.
It was no where near as impressive as the total eclipse in 2017 at totality. And because the solar filter was on the telephoto lens, I couldn't see any plasma.
