Annular Solar Eclipse : October 14, 2023

Flight to Cedar City : October 13

Ivanpah Solar Power Facility	Lake Mohave	Temple Bar Airport	East side of St. George
Burger Peak, Pine Valley Mountains	Some brilliant fall colors	Big Point	Harmony Mountains
Final approach to CDC

Annular eclipse : October 14

7 miles southwest of Kanosh, UT

38 45.535N 112 33.497W, a few feet from the predicted center line.

Eclipse morning with scattered high clouds	15:07:51Z Before eclipse start	15:08:56Z 1st contact (maxumum eclipse -79 min)	15:09:13Z Definitely a small bite...
15:18:04Z (max - 70m)	15:28:08Z Some passing high clouds (-60m)	15:39:13Z (-48m)	15:55:35Z A sunspot is gobbled up (-32m)
16:10:18Z Another sunspot consumed (-17m)	16:16:40Z (-11m)	16:23:12Z (-5m)	16:25:31Z (-2m43s)
16:25:54Z 2nd contact (-2m20s)	16:26:03Z (-2m11s)	16:27:39Z (-35s)	16:28:14Z Maximum eclipse
16:28:40Z (+26s)	16:30:34Z 3rd contact (+2m20s)	16:31:15Z (+3m01s)	16:43:04Z (+15m)
16:57:25Z (+29m)	17:08:31Z (+40m)	17:18:53Z One sunspot is back (+50m)	17:31:17Z So is the other now (+63m)
17:40:13Z (+72m)	17:50:31Z (+82m)	17:55:53Z Last contact (+87m)	18:00:58Z After eclipse end

A composite of the eclipse at 5 minute intervals (2.5 min at annularity) as the sun moved across the sky.
Unfortunately, the focus got knocked off so everything is blurry :(

Eclipse composite at 5 min intervals (2.5m at annularity)

A view to the southwest, at a constant exposure setting. Since our eyes adapt to the diminishing light, it did not seem that dark during annularity.

14:56:32Z Before eclipse start	15:21:59Z 13m after start, 66m until maximum	15:50:11Z 42m after start, 38m until maximum	16:09:46Z 61m after start, 18m until maximum
16:22:49Z 74m after start, 5m until maximum	16:27:26Z During annularity	16:41:35Z 74m from end, 13m after maximum	16:54:25Z 61m from end, 26m after maximum
17:17:02Z 39m from end, 48m after maximum	17:44:10Z 12m from end, 75m after maximum	17:57:50Z After eclipse end

Marble Canyon : October 14

I hopped over to Marble Canyon to check out the condors before heading home. Only one was there, #54, who I've seen on every visit in the last 4 years.

North of Springdale, looking NE	North of Kanab	Seaman Point, east of Kanab	Buckskin Gulch, on the west side of Paria Plateau
North and South Teepees	Middle Reservoir	pIMG_6459.JPG	Above the cliffs near Sevenmile Draw
Marble Canyon Airport	pIMG_6470.JPG	Navajo Bridge	AirCams departing
cIMG_6485.JPG	Only one condor here today	cIMG_6487.JPG	cIMG_6488.JPG
#54*, M, born 2004 in Boise	pIMG_6492.JPG	cIMG_6494.JPG	Listening for radio tagged condors in the area
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