Michael Wolfson took these pictures of the eclipsed sun and two planets Mercury and Venus.
He was using a Canon PowerShot S3 IS on auto.
Exposure was f 3.2 at 1/15 second for the first and 1/13 second for the second at a focal length of 9.7.
Nancy Kuehner also took pictures of the sun and planets during totality.
Nikon 5400 ISO 200 F 5.6 focal length 24.00 1 second exposure hand held
Lee Petersen got some great shots
First contact. Can you see it?
Partial phases
TOTALITY
The diamond ring
You can see the chromosphere on the left and a prominence on the right.
The chromosphere is now hidden
Note how the lowest levels of the corona change in successive pictures as the moon moves past the sun.
And the prominence becomes more prominent. (I couldn't resist.)
The second diamond ring.
Partial phases again.
This time as the moon moves away from our line of sight to the sun.
Fourth and last contact.
Nick took this video which he shared with the group.
Here is the beginning of the eclipse.
It is great, but no photographic or video representation can do justice to what it is like to be there in person.
There were several in the group who had never seen an eclipse.
Their reactions may give you a little better idea of what the eclipse really looked like
He used a Sony HSR-Sr11 set to auto.
His comment on technique "Easy, point and shoot."
Mongolia eclipse
Here is the final diamond ring.
No one fails to be struck by the beauty of the diamond ring when they actually see it for themselves.
Mongolia eclipse final diamond ring
The following pictures were taken by Alan Kuehner.
They were taken using a Nikon 950 set at 3x zoom with a Kenko 8X afocal telescope attached.
First contact and a moment later.
The difference in color is due to different exposure times.
Any difference in sizes is because I didn't consistently crop the pictures.
