Stapleton, Nebraska

Telescope images recorded with mounted iPhone 6, equipped with Bluetooth shutter

• Orion 400 mm focal length refractor
• 80 mm objective (f/5)
• 9 mm eyepiece (44x)
• solar filter on objective end (except for images during totality)
• equatorial mount manually adjusted

• disappearing crescent
• disappearing diamond ring
• totality
• totality, long view (Erin Furtak, photographer)
• appearing diamond ring
• appearing crescent

• time sequence (jpeg 10.8 Mb)
• time sequence (pdf 80.2 Mb)

• onset of totality, with crickets and crowd reaction (Rick Furtak, photographer: m4v 51.5 Mb)

Tom Furtak
University Professor Emeritus
Department of Physics
Colorado School of Mines
Golden, CO 80401