Welcome to the annular eclipse 2023 portal.

NEVER LOOK DIRECTLY AT A SOLAR ECLIPSE WITHOUT SPECIAL FILTERS AS SUDDEN AND PERMANENT EYE DAMAGE CAN OCCUR!

Here you will find photos we took of the annular solar eclipse of October 14, 2023. An annular eclipse is where the moon is farther away from the earth (Its orbit is an elipse and this point is the apogee.) so the entire sun is not covered, leaving what is refered to as the ring of fire. We had originaly planned on going to southern Oregon to photograph totality but weather was forcast to be lousy. We stayed home expecting to miss this one. Early Saturday was pouring down rain so no plans were made to set the telescope up. Just before the eclipse started there were breaks in the sky so we threw gear together and began shooting. Clouds plagued us but using our Canon camera on a tripod with appropriate solar filter we took these images. Most of the images were shot through varying cloud thickness. Our location did not get totality. Click on an image for a larger view.