The best solar eclipse pictures gathered from social media
Meteorologist/Science Writer
Friday, October 24, 2014, 10:05 AM - Cloudy skies? Didn't have the right eye protection? Well, you don't have to fret too much if you missed yesterday's partial solar eclipse. Social media had us covered!
Although the best place to see the eclipse (in its totality) was from somewhere roughly centred in the Pacific Ocean, with telescopes and cameras across North America pointed towards the Sun yesterday evening, there are plenty of images to shuffle through by just checking out YouTube and Twitter, and great videos have been uploaded, like this time-lapse of the event.
The view from the York University observatory, in Toronto, Ontario, was posted by Professor Ray Jayawardhana, and Tom Stef uploaded his views from north of Toronto.
A few pics from yesterday's solar #eclipse viewing in #Toronto. HT @yorkobservatory cc @YorkUScience @YorkUPresOffice pic.twitter.com/LbSIXdHoaS
— Ray Jayawardhana (@DrRayJay) October 24, 2014Small series of #SolarEclipse photos north of #Toronto near #Dundalk - cirrus cloud on the horizon made it spooky! pic.twitter.com/QoBJNhaLV8
— Tom Stef (@vaughanweather) October 24, 2014
Plenty of people were capturing images and videos with their cellphone, using tricks like this one, filtering the sunlight through the dark edge of an x-ray film.
The results of some of these cellphone attempts were quite good, like this one, from a viewer in Kitchener, Ontario, using his iPhone 5c.
The best views were coming closer to the west coast, though like this one from Colorado, posted by Phil Plait, astronomer and author of Slate's Bad Astronomy blog.
Better focus, but still having a bit of a time with it. #eclipse pic.twitter.com/ArfKaOgxol
— Philth Plague (@BadAstronomer) October 23, 2014
From even further west, here's what Jason Senger saw from British Columbia, as well as a time-series of the eclipse strung together from Griffith Observatory, north of Los Angeles, Calif.
woohoo. taken on my old 5" scope, from BC Canada! @JPMajor @BadAstronomer pic.twitter.com/cNT0vy8rB6
— jason senger (@jasonsenger) October 23, 2014Composite pic of the Oct. 23 Partial #SolarEclipse created from the Griffith Observatory live feed #eclipse #sun pic.twitter.com/6TafaxGWsn
— Observing Space (@ObservingSpace) October 24, 2014
There are plenty of others out there. Search for the #eclipse or #solareclipse hashtags on Twitter to see them, and you can check out a recording of Scott Lewis and Thad Szabo's live-feed of the eclipse from Norwalk, Calif, below.
CLICK TO WATCH: Astrophysicist Katie Mack joins them, remotely from Melbourne, Australia, to discuss the science of eclipses!
