Archive for April, 2024

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20240408 total solar eclipse – allsky1

Apr12
by kevin on April 12, 2024 at 08:50 and modified on April 12, 2024. at 08:51
Posted In: astronomy

One of the many data recorders we had running during the eclipse, was our allsky1 camera system, configured to take images in the daytime. It saved one to two images per minute and we have assembled those into a video below. The start of the video is at C1, first contact, start of the partial eclipse, and ends at C4, end of the partial eclipse.
Note that totality only last for 2 minutes 4 seconds and so there are only a very few frames of that.


Note the extreme amount of broken cloud. We were lucky indeed to have totality during a break in the clouds!

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20240408 total solar eclipse – radio jove

Apr12
by kevin on April 12, 2024 at 08:46
Posted In: astronomy

For those that have to deal with clouds interfering with visual astronomy, we have some words for you: Radio Astronomy!
Our Radiojove telescope system was up and running during the Total Solar Eclipse over Yarker Ontario on 2024 April 8th.
The first image below is from first to last contact (approx 18:09-20:34 UTC).
There is a very slight decrease around 19:53.

The next one is for the time of totality only (approx 19:18-19:26 UTC). The single short duration spike is likely an ionospheric radio probe.

As a comparator that the system is in fact working, here is a daily plot from April 8th:

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