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The Grand Drawing In @theauldsthretch.bsky.social · 42m

The view from Dollymount this morning

A sunrise picture. Taken from Dollymount Strand in Dublin, looking south-east. The sun was up amount 15 minutes at this point, and is obscured by a small band of low-lying clouds, so you can see where it is by the rays shining out from behind the clouds, mostly above them, but also somewhat below them. In the very near foreground we see the sandy shore, and in the middle ground we see the waters of Dublin Bay. On the horizon, we see the silhouette of a ferry that had just left Dublin Port heading off (probably) to the mysterious minor island to the east of us that the natives call "Britain".

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The Grand Drawing In @theauldsthretch.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Poor-quality quick-uns from Cantabria in Northern Spain. Missed totality, unfortunately.

A shot of the eclipse through a sun filter about 15 minutes after totality.

A shot of the eclipse from with no sun filter through the clouds about 1 minute before totality.

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The Grand Drawing In @theauldsthretch.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

the image onto a card or other surface. 4. You could go all professional, and get a solar filter for your binoculars or telescope. This remains risky, as unlike all the other ways of observing eclipses, if you get it wrong the result can be devastating. 12/13

How to project the sun safely through a binoculars

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The Grand Drawing In @theauldsthretch.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

middle of it, about 1mm diameter. Hold that card perpendicular to the sun, and the light coming through the hole onto the surface behind it (e.g. another piece of card, or the wall, etc.) will be a projection of the sun's disk, clearly showing the eclipse. 9/13

Some examples of simple pinhole projections of eclipses.

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The Grand Drawing In @theauldsthretch.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Solstice sunset as seen from Corfu. (Sounds much better if you pronounce it "Sorfu")

A sunset over the Mediterranean Sea. There's a rock in the mid-distance, and the sun is just to the right of it.

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The Grand Drawing In @theauldsthretch.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Yesterday's sunset take from the Bull Wall.

The setting sun in Dublin. Taken from the North Bull Wall, we see the sea (the Tolka Estuary) in the foreground, and far in the distance is the North Dublin skyline. Behind the tallest building we can see is the sun, 1/5 or so obscured by the sun. Up in the sky above the building is a pair of clouds, shaded yellow and orange by the low-lying sun. The whole scene has a rusty hue.

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The Grand Drawing In @theauldsthretch.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Yes, yes, we know we're not morning people, but some opportunities should not be passed either.

$The sunrise from the Clontarf promenade on the 10th December 2025 at 08:33. The sun has just completed it's breach from the horizon, but is obscured slightly by some cloud. The sky is a little orange from the refracted light of the sun. I attempted to place the sun directly in between the two lighthouses in Dublin Bay (one at the end of the North Bull Wall and the other at the end of the South Wall, mostly succeeding.$