Out on the river early afternoon to watch the eclipse. Nice breeze and a few other boats out for the same reason. My idea was to shoot a time lapse of the eclipse, a frame every two seconds from a camera mounted on the center board trunk. I knew that the camera would not show the moon crossing in front of the sun. We were expecting about 89% coverage here and that would allow enough light to make the sun still look like the sun. My hope was to capture the changing quality of light. I thought it might be fun and the mainsail moving back and forth would add to the images as I tacked back and forth on Craford Bay.
Unfortunately a couple of small, dark grey clouds had other plans, sliding in front of the sun just a few minutes before peak coverage, 2:47 local time. The clouds stayed there long enough to obscure what I was trying to do. Oh well. But as I said, there was a nice breeze and it was fun to watch the eclipse for well over an hour through my Amazon glasses - remember, always practice safe viewing. A nice day on the water.
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