Total Eclipse Pics

[Basil]

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 ...)

Thanks Tom. It was a lot of fun, and even though we had to brave the most horrendous traffic I've seen in my life (oddly coming back - not so bad going up) it was well worth it.

 

[Boink]

Thanks Tom. It was a lot of fun, and even though we had to brave the most horrendous traffic I've seen in my life (oddly coming back - not so bad going up) it was well worth it.

That was always the big concern. People dribbled into totality for over 5 days, but a heck of a lot of them left at the same time. We only braved 2 hours to get home (in what would have otherwise have been 1 hour). We got to totality with virtually no traffic at all (early in the morning).

 

[waltesefalcon]

Those are some really fantastic photos Bas!

 

[DrEntropy]

Remarkable images, guys!

300mm is about the upper end for hand-held photos, good on ya Mick!

 

[Mickey Richaud]

Remarkable images, guys!

300mm is about the upper end for hand-held photos, good on ya Mick!

Thanks, but I don't think it was anything I did - totally automatic mode. I was really surprised at how well some of them came out.

The camera has a feature that wasn't deployed: Anti-Shake. Some of the shots were a bit blurry, but those turned out nicely.

 

[John Turney]

... prominences (Which are the small flare-like pinkish projections at top and on the right of the image). ...

Looks more like a house. Maybe the Devil lives there. Great photos, Bas!

 

[NutmegCT]

Basil - you mentioned shooting a series of exposures during the eclipse. Did you get anything like this "sequenced" view of the corona?

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The photographer's website explains the technique to capture a greatly extended view of the corona. Very cool to also capture the Earth-side of the Moon, showing Earth's reflected light illuminating the Moon's surface.

https://www.alsonwongastro.com/

 

[Basil]

Basil - you mentioned shooting a series of exposures during the eclipse. Did you get anything like this "sequenced" view of the corona?

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The photographer's website explains the technique to capture a greatly extended view of the corona. Very cool to also capture the Earth-side of the Moon, showing Earth's reflected light illuminating the Moon's surface.

https://www.alsonwongastro.com/

In fact I did shoot a series at different exposures for the purpose of "stacking" to get one image with properly exposed corona from surface out to a few solar radii - just haven't had a chance to process yet.

 

[Boink]

That's unbelievable!!! The moon looked totally black to me great composite shots!

 

[Basil]

That's unbelievable!!! The moon looked totally black to me great composite shots!

Whoever took that photo isolated the moon and over-exposed the heck out of it to reveal the moon's features. That would not have been visible with naked eye. What little light there is illuminating the moon is sunlight that is reflected off the Earth back onto the moon.

 

[waltesefalcon]

Wow, what an astounding photography. The detail in the moon is exceptionally well defined.

 

[pdplot]

What did the Flat earth people say about the eclipse?

 

[Gliderman8]

What did the Flat earth people say about the eclipse?

I don't know, but there are people all around the globe that have their own ideas on the matter. :rolleye:

 

[Mickey Richaud]

What did the Flat earth people say about the eclipse?

They said it didn't happen.