May 21, 2012 ALP C6 Partial
Solar Eclipse Report
by Armando
Lee
Images by Armando Lee, Kevin Dagunan, Mia Lee ,
Christopher Lee & Sheldon Espartero
Last May 21, the ALP C6 Road
Partial Solar Eclipse Team started from Malibay, Pasay
and drove down to the Lower Bicutan at around
4:45am and got to their site along C6 Road at 5:10am. It
was partly cloudy and the Sierra Mountain range where
the Sun and Moon is expected to rise from has clouds
over it.
With the team were: Dr Armando Lee
with his wife ALPer Myra Lee, ALPers Christopher Lee ,
Sheldom Espartero and Kevin Dagunan. Their set up
included the following: a Personal Solar Telescope + GE
digicam @ afocal set up, an 80mm f/5 achromatic
refractor + EOS 350d @ prime focus, an 80mm f/7.5 ED
refractor + EOS 1100D @ prime focus, iphone + 8x
telephoto lens for twitcasting, 3 solar binoculars, and
a welder's mask with grade 14 filter. The group missed
the crescent sunrise over the Sierra Madre mountains and
saw it 3 mins after sunset. The maximum partiality was
imaged successfully and from them on , the sky
participated well and gave the group chance to image the
rest of the partial phases. Around 50 people from the
site were able to view through the group's solar
binoculars and welder's mask. The planned twittercasting
did not pushed through because of poor mobile phone
signal at the site. The group documented the eclipse as
planned except for the twitcasting and also shared the
views through the solar binoculars and welder's mask.
Photos were twitted through twitter account:
astrocamp_ph later on that morning when they finally
left the site and got a better signal for Dr Lee's
iPhone.
ALP C6 PSE Team waiting for
the Sun to rise. |
ALPer Christopher Lee all set
for the eclipse :) |
ALP PRO Armando Lee leads the
ALP C6 PSE Team |
Partial Solar Eclipse in
Progress |
Maximum Partial Solar Eclipse
Phase |
Partial Solar Eclipse in Ha
wavelength |
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