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[Yu Gu]

We went to Vermilion River Reservation: Mill Hollow near Cleveland OH.

Here is a video: https://youtu.be/Iad...brF2J9F-DyjWgw4

 

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[astrochef]

My daughter and I drove to Perrysburg Ohio.  Some decent pics with cell phone through 4 inch refractor, 32 mm EP

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[astrochef]

and this one

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[R Botero]

Great shots people!   Despite the high clouds we had a memorable eclipse in Mazatlan.  Prominences were fantastic and Baily's beads were very clear both before and after C2 and C3.   Some hints of the corona through the clouds also.   A couple of initial extracts from my videos; no processing on these yet.

 

Roberto

 

 

 

[Nerd1]

We went to Vermilion River Reservation: Mill Hollow near Cleveland OH.
Here is a video: https://youtu.be/Iad...brF2J9F-DyjWgw4

That is spectacular, best shot I've seen.

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[Albany Astro]

Checking in from Crown Point, NY.

[Cpk133]

My daughter and I drove to Perrysburg Ohio.  Some decent pics with cell phone through 4 inch refractor, 32 mm EP

Perfect profile pic:

See post #7. https://www.cloudyni.../#entry13378973

[chvvkumar]

Indiana

 

[maj]

From Bloomington, IN.  Tap photo for better resolution

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[NickLandis2023]

Here’s my preliminary shots from what I could edit from an iPad. I hope to get some more detail out of some shots once I get home to my computer. 
 

Camera: Sony A6000

Telescope: Williams Optics ZenithStart 61II

Location: Prouty Beach, Newport VT. Anyone else at that event?

 

[Chris Boar]

Magog, Quebec.

 

Edit....how do I post this image larger?

 

Edited by Chris Boar, 09 April 2024 - 03:30 PM.

[MattPenn]

Here's a very quick look at just one HDR image set from just one of our Dynamic Eclipse Broadcast Initiative sites.  We have something like 40 sites reporting data from the path of totality, and each site collected about 50 HDR exposure sets like this one.  This is from site 33 near Jackman Maine.

 

This is a quick look image where the HDR exposures are roughly aligned (better alignment coming soon) and the average radial intensity of the corona is removed (the actual intensity drops by a factor of 1000x from inner corona to edge of FOV).  

 

Our volunteers all used 40mm Askar FMA180 Pro telescopes, Player1 Neptune-M camera, iOptron SkyHunter mount, and a SharpCap Pro script to collect the data with a laptop.  During partial phases each site uploaded one image per minute (stacked and processed with PlanetarySystemStacker) and during totality each site ran a script to collect HDR coronal image sets.

 

Looking forward to a lot of data processing!

 

Edited by MattPenn, 09 April 2024 - 03:39 PM.

[maj]

Here’s my preliminary shots from what I could edit from an iPad. I hope to get some more detail out of some shots once I get home to my computer. 
 

Camera: Sony A6000

Telescope: Williams Optics ZenithStart 61II

Location: Prouty Beach, Newport VT. Anyone else at that event?

 

Beautiful capture of the C2 Baily’s beads!  Also, thanks for posting all of the weather updates.

[NickLandis2023]

Beautiful capture of the C2 Baily’s beads!  Also, thanks for posting all of the weather updates.

Thank you! The Sony only goes down to 1/4000s shutter speed, so a lot of beads photos are pretty washed out. I did use bracketing via exposure compensation so hopefully I can pull more detail out of them between the 3 EV shots. We will see
 

and my pleasure! I hope it helped get some people to the right place!

[N-1]

Magog, Quebec.

 

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Epic shot!!

[mattbarber]

Only quick edits so far

 

 

 

[woolbrig]

Just a few thin clouds in Sparta IL.  Great eclipse!  Draft of an HDR image from a single bracketed group.

 

[PhilDog]

I have a series of pictures from the eclipse beginning to end.  Due to tracking issues, the sun is not in the same place for each picture.  Is there a program that will auto align each image for a collage or slideshow?

 

Thanks!

 

[maj]

Our hotel room had a kitchen equipped with a colander.  I’m glad that I remembered to do this.  I’ll have to photoshop some alien eyes on it.

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[Charles Funk]

I battled clouds and terrible seeing, but managed a few shots. We had 97% coverage at home. Wanted to make the trip for totality, but iffy weather, and having pets who might have issues with us gone for 10-12 hours, we stayed home.

 

Most of my pics were suffering from cloud cover, it was miserable. But I got one pic, that probably few did. I heard an airplane buzzing around, but didn't think much of it. I was waiting for the 10 second timer to snap a shot and when it did, I thought I saw a plane. After each pic my camera shows the new pic for a couple seconds, then reverts back to picture taking readiness. Was too busy at the the time to check it out. We were fast approaching final contact, and clouds covered me up for first contact, so I was intent on getting as many pics as I could before the next big cloud rolled in.

 

Later yesterday evening, I loaded the pics into the computer. This is the one I was looking for. It's washed out to white because of clouds. It's focus is bad, because of clouds and poor seeing. But you can't miss the plane.

 

Orion ED 80, on a CG5, 16 mp Sony Cybershot Camera, afocal shot through a 27 Pan. 

 

Crazy, dumb luck. When I saw this pic I let out an expletive I can't repeat here. Followed up by an almost sinister "evil mastermind" laugh. I didn't even know I could do that.

 

 

 

 

 

[quantumgiggles]

Nothing great compared to the awesome shots here, but I am happy with what I could get using an iPhone and a simple 6" newtonian.

 

 

 

[Achernar]

This is my best one of totality. I took it through an 8-inch EdgeHD SCT with a .7X focal focal reducer and a Nikon D5000 DSLR. I exposed it for 1/1000th of a second at an ISO rating of 400.

 

Taras

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[Lukey]

The end of totality from Magog.

 

[Charles Funk]

Magog, Quebec.

 

Edit....how do I post this image larger?

 

I have to run my pics through Paint to shrink them. I imagine you can enlarge as well. There is a 500mb limit on pics to upload here. So you will have to save your modified pic. Then right click on it, check properties for file size.

 

Resize, save, check, till you get what you can use. I save as originalfilename-2 or -3, -4 etc, to keep them straight, and not overwrite the original.

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[NickLandis2023]

I have a series of pictures from the eclipse beginning to end.  Due to tracking issues, the sun is not in the same place for each picture.  Is there a program that will auto align each image for a collage or slideshow?

 

Thanks!

 

I tried to use autostakkert for the 2023 annular eclipse. It seemed to get easily confused but it got them mostly centered and then I could go through photoshop and center them manually. Perhaps if you try it in small batches it will fair better… If I try it again this eclipse I’ll let you know how it goes