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[Nerd1]

I spent the day with this group of scientists,they rented the lake front house right next to us. The Dr. and her students even took turns looking through my scopes. A science journalist was here and me andy wife learned a lot from the whole group. I also got some really good shots.

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[Mike Lynch]

Thicker clouds parted just before totality, leaving high thin cirrus at a nature preserve in northeastern Texas this afternoon. We had stunning views of the eclipse at totality...

 

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[Seawild]

WOW. What an overwhelming and powerful experience.  And to see Venus and Jupiter in the sky as well. Here is my shot from the yard in Carmel, Indiana.  AstroShader Camera, 102x600 Meade Infinity, 15mm EP, AltAz, iPhone 8+

 

Did anyone grab a shot the comet Pons-Brooks by Jupiter?

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[cee_dee.exe]

We made it to Colebrook, NH. Parked at 10 AM and sat right next to our car, while everyone else went to a nearby festival. So we had plenty of space to ourselves.

 

All I can say is that when the last sliver of orange sun disappeared in my eclipse glasses and I took them off, I shot out of my chair and said OH MY (redacted) GOD and then was speechless for the three minutes of totality.

 

Amazing how far the reach of the sun's corona into the sky. Saw planets. It got cold. It was fantastic.

 

What a marvelous show, perhaps the most intense and beautiful thing I've ever seen.

[BarrySimon615]

Concerns over north Texas eclipse observation dissipated just as the clouds dissipated at White Rock Lake (western shore) in Dallas.

 

We could see the first phase of the eclipse between 1st and 2nd contact intermittently.  Some good views at times but unpredictable.  Certainly not a situation for anyone wanting to photograph the whole eclipse at set time intervals.  I was not doing that so it did not matter.  However about 5 minutes before totality the skies parted and we had totally clear skies within about 40 or more degrees of the Sun in all directions.  It was very clear, more so than the high level stuff we had in Missouri for the 2017 eclipse.  The Sun, with it's prominences was magnificent thru my apo 60 mm scope with a 30 mm 2 inch eyepiece.  That yielded about 12x.  An unbelievable view.  Did not take any photos thru that but I did take just a few with my Canon 60D with a 200 mm lens.

 

No regrets at all, more than what I expected.

 

Barry Simon

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[JSTAR0057]

Totality was a go in Mason, Tx. I drove there from Boerne this morning after viewing the latest weather data. Here is one from my Canon eos 400mm. More later on.

 

[scooke]

scooke, 

 

Nice photo.  I heard that there was a 400 couple group wedding at the city soccer complex in Russelville today.  Are congratulations in order?

 

Alan 

Wow.  It would be hard to top that one for a wedding day.  What do you do for anniversaries?  

[bunyon]

scooke,

Nice photo. I heard that there was a 400 couple group wedding at the city soccer complex in Russelville today. Are congratulations in order?

Alan

For at least 150 of them.

[DrGoon]

Wow. It would be hard to top that one for a wedding day. What do you do for anniversaries?

Annulars?

[John Fitzgerald]

We had a great view from near Subiaco, Arkansas. 

[Steve Cox]

Great view from Big Springs park just south of Van Buren, MO.  And couldn't have asked for more ideal weather: 83*F, 14% humidity and light breeze.  4 1/2 excellent minutes of a beautiful corona.

 

edit - adding in my best cell phone pix of the corona and flares.

 

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Edited by Steve Cox, 08 April 2024 - 10:04 PM.

[W5JCK]

Here are two composites I've processed so far. I was shooting from Everman Texas about 10 miles south of Fort Worth and using a Sony a7C with Canon 400mm f/5.6L USM lens. We had partly cloudy skies, but fairly open during most of the eclipse.

 

The first one is the Diamond Ring at C2. It is a four image stack taken with brackets using 0.7 EV:

 

 

The second image is an HDR stacked composite of the corona and includes a bracket of 15 photos ranging from 1/4000th to 1/6th sec shutters, all using f/8, and ISO 1600. The is a 9.3 stop range of shutter speeds varied by 0.7 stop each. So I assume that means up to 9.3 stops due to the HDR stacking plus perhaps 12 stops in a photo for a little over 21 stops of light. I created two brackets that were both 9 shots each at 0.7 stop each. The Sony a7C allows up to 9 photos in brackets, which worked out well. The longest 3 photo shutters were too bright to use. I manually aligned the images in layers and set the opacity levels to create the HDR composite. There were high clouds around the Sun, hence the extra haziness.

 

 

I'm still post processing a lot of other images.

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[Steven.Hagler]

Like others...we had an amazing day.   Very fortunate to live in the path of totality (very near downtown Dallas) and although the weather looked iffy all morning, we were mostly clear for totality.    I pulled one image and did some very slight processing for color.   I ended up imaging via 3 scopes and cameras so I still have a lot to go through and process.  This specific image was from a Canon 600D attached to ZWO FF107 with reducer (~550 FL).  I had the Canon being controlled by SETnC and everything on top of ZWO AM5 Mount.  I had polar aligned last night and was happy to see that it tracked solidly for 3 hours with zero adjustments needed.

 

Cheers!

 

 

[Nerd1]

 

Here are two composites I've processed so far. I was shooting from Everman Texas about 10 miles south of Fort Worth and using a Sony a7C with Canon 400mm f/5.6L USM lens. We had partly cloudy skies, but fairly open during most of the eclipse.

 

The first one is the Diamond Ring at C2. It is a four image stack taken with brackets using 0.7 EV:

 

 

 

The second image is an HDR stacked composite of the corona and includes a bracket of 15 photos ranging from 1/4000th to 1/6th sec shutters, all using f/8, and ISO 1600. The is a 9.3 stop range of shutter speeds varied by 0.7 stop each. So I assume that means up to 9.3 stops due to the HDR stacking plus perhaps 12 stops in a photo for a little over 21 stops of light. I created two brackets that were both 9 shots each at 0.7 stop each. The Sony a7C allows up to 9 photos in brackets, which worked out well. The longest 3 photo shutters were too bright to use. I manually aligned the images in layers and set the opacity levels to create the HDR composite. There were high clouds around the Sun, hence the extra haziness.

 

 

 

I'm still post processing a lot of other images.

 

Beautiful work.

[W5JCK]

Beautiful work.

Thank you! This was my first, and probably last, total eclipse, so a rookie with totality, but I did a lot of studying the past several months and practiced often.

[fieldsweeper]

Here are a few from West Virginia where we had 93% of the sun covered. Lots of clouds, plus I grabbed the wrong camera. But I made the best of the situation. I used a Coronado 60mm front-mounted filter and BF-10 blocking filter mounted on a Tak FS-60 scope. Single snapshots on an alt az mount. Processed in Lightroom. 

 

V/R

 

Terry

You can mount the coronado doublestack to another telescope?

[fieldsweeper]

Ya know what is crazy, all of these photos are great, they show some great shots... but something about the definition of naked eye, and being able to see the affect ALL of your peripheral. I have yet to see even nasa level photos that really do a total eclipse justice to the in person effect. the perfect bright ring around it, the corona (white) blasting around that, and the utter black body nearly looking like a black hole with of course ZERO noise in it (like in pics) and then of course the fading darkness surrounding... It was cool. and this time, that very very bright dot to the bottom left being that prominence most have pictured (including myself) that was pink thru a scope, but bright white looking up, plus the planet below in the sky. 

I Def want to see another. And ESP taking pics and trying to look up, 2:47 seconds was not long enough lol.

 

 

I think the biggest part of that is that the luminance just cannot be recreated, your brightness of the display you are using is of course maxed out well before, as well as more "evened out" over the whole picture. 

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[topcode]

 
These are just a sort of preliminary images, Haven't yet had the time to go and combine properly, composite with my wf shots, and all that, but ill tell you, this thing is amazing, the prominences all on the edge, so beautiful. And its amazing how that one in the bottom right of my image, was present during the start of second contact, even though it was on almost the opposite side of the sun!

[W5JCK]

Ya know what is crazy, all of these photos are great, they show some great shots... but something about the definition of naked eye, and being able to see the affect ALL of your peripheral. I have yet to see even nasa level photos that really do a total eclipse justice to the in person effect. the perfect bright ring around it, the corona (white) blasting around that, and the utter black body nearly looking like a black hole with of course ZERO noise in it (like in pics) and then of course the fading darkness surrounding... It was cool. and this time, that very very bright dot to the bottom left being that prominence most have pictured (including myself) that was pink thru a scope, but bright white looking up, plus the planet below in the sky. 

I Def want to see another. And ESP taking pics and trying to look up, 2:47 seconds was not long enough lol.

 

 

I think the biggest part of that is that the luminance just cannot be recreated, your brightness of the display you are using is of course maxed out well before, as well as more "evened out" over the whole picture. 

Absolutely, one of those “you need to be there in person” to really understand what it is like. For me the best moments were the two minutes I paused to just look and feel. The best of the best was when the schoolchildren from the elementary school half a block away from my house collectively reacted to it going dark and I heard a few hundred children with one voice as it were express their joy and amazement. 

[dsergison]

https://photos.app.g...yjG5SWibCcSSe79

 

10" meade f4.5 newt. and canon eos rp in Englewood Ohio (Dayton)

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[dsergison]

katana 

 10" meade f4.5 newt. and canon eos rp in Englewood Ohio (Dayton)

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[dsergison]

blown out ring.  setting exposure is difficult!

10" meade f4.5 newt. and canon eos rp in Englewood Ohio (Dayton)

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[Exeligmos]

Question:

 

When observing the totally eclipsed sun in 2017, could you easily make out prominences with the naked eye or with binoculars? Some people then said they were easily visible with the naked eye. However, I saw only one as a pinkish-orange smudge when using 9x63 binoculars. My avatar on the left side of this post is a sketch of what I saw. Now I'm wondering if I actually saw the eclipse behind a patch of cirrus cloud. In any case, it was absolutely magnificent.

Answer: This time, they appeared as ruby-colored 'sparks' hugging the lunar limb. I was a bit surprised by their vivid brilliance. Perhaps the more subdued inner corona this time made the difference.

[Steve Cox]

Answer: This time, they appeared as ruby-colored 'sparks' hugging the lunar limb. I was a bit surprised by their vivid brilliance. Perhaps the more subdued inner corona this time made the difference.

Two of the four that show up in my and others photos were easily visible naked eye. Many of the photos here seem to verify them as prominences since you can match their positions in multiple photos.

[TerryWood]

You can mount the coronado doublestack to another telescope?

Yes, you can obtain the adapter from Precise Parts. It's really nice to have! My front-mounted etalons are the pre-Meade versions. The BF-10 blocking filter is relatively new. 

 

V/R

 

Terry

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