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Total Eclipse Pics
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Gliderman8
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Very cool!
It didn't get very dark here in PA, just strangely "overcast"
It didn't get very dark here in PA, just strangely "overcast"
OP
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I was really surprised that it didn't get very dark here, despite those pictures. More like twilight. We saw a couple of planets, but no stars.
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Great photos Mickey!
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You did better than we did:
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Great pictures, Mickey. We didn't get squat of the sun but some cool pictures of the leaf pattern on the drive after totality. Neatest think in nature i've ever seen.
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The only change noticed was a short drop in temperature. Critters apparently were not impressed.
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It was also amazing how different 99% vs. 100% was. People who stayed in Portland saw 99.3%... and that resulted in a 10 degree drop in temperature and darkened sky. We drove 30 minutes south for 1m16s of totality. That 1% made ALL THE DIFFERENCE! Further drop in temp and then a sudden burst of the very white corona (seen with the naked eye) and a black moon. It was stunning. Didn't see Bailey's Beads (at the start) but did find the "Diamond Ring" to be spectacular (at the end). Weather was a perfect as it could be.
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My pictures were taken with a Konika Minolta 7D digital SLR and a Tamron 70-300 mm tele-macro zoom lens, set at 300mm and automatic function. And no tripod - just hand-held. Nothing fancy, as I have no real experience with manual settings. Didn't try to take any earlier or later than totality, as I read that without a solar filter, the camera would be damaged. Not to mention my eyes! I think I got lucky with the shots I got!
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Basil - those pictures are excellent! You've spurred me to getting under a full eclipse next time - 2024. Probably Vermont, Quebec, or Maine.
Bravo on the Cytography!
Tom M.
(I was going to make some photos myself, but ran out of albumen and silver nitrate ...)
Bravo on the Cytography!
Tom M.
(I was going to make some photos myself, but ran out of albumen and silver nitrate ...)
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Thanks! All were shot with a Canon 7DII and a Sigma 150-600mm lens on a tripod. I was using a Firecrest 18-stop solar filter for the eclipse pictures (pre-totality) and no filter at all during totality. All pics were shot at ISO 100 and f8, then I used shutter speed to control exposure. In the first picture of totality, the pinkish-white area near the lower left quadrant I think (hope) are called "Baily's Beads where the sun shines though the lunar valleys. I shot at a series of exposures so that I could hopefully capture both Baily's Beads and prominences (Which are the small flare-like pinkish projections at top and on the right of the image). Once I shot at relatively fast shutter speeds to capture those features, I shot a series from 1/125 sec to about 8 sec in 1-stop increments to correctly expose different parts of the corona.
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