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[maj]

Finally home and had a chance to go through some images shot in Bloomington, IN and post this series.  These were all shot using a Nikon D850 w/ a 500mm PF lens and a 1.4 teleconverter for a 700mm focal length.  Planned on shooting manual at ISO 200; however, due to some thin high cloud cover just before totality, I decided to abandon my manual exposure settings and boost the ISO to 800 and switch to program shooting mode.  Had I not done that, I think would’ve had better IQ - I had to filter out some noise that affected the image sharpness.  I also just noticed yesterday that the VR setting on my lens had been switched on sport mode (probably just careless handling on my part).  I’m very grateful for the experience and happy enough with the results but thinking they could’ve been better if I’d just stuck to my plan. 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

F3BBBFFB-67D5-4271-BFA3-B718E1FA40EA by majmontana, on Flickr
 

 

41FFAE5F-1BE6-4D67-A9FD-67E3026BB37D by majmontana, on Flickr

 

 

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Edited by maj, 16 April 2024 - 11:28 AM.

[maj]

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Caught a few stars during totality, maybe due to the higher ISO setting.

 

368C2D62-3D53-4C6B-A3FC-2F3938DC6A99 by majmontana, on Flickr
 

38E67DD6-E73C-4E38-8043-3DABD206E0C7 by majmontana, on Flickr

 

4F2D119B-B494-4FD9-B93C-17614BA13943 by majmontana, on Flickr

BD970C26-E2E2-49C0-AEBA-3FF25F35DB4C by majmontana, on Flickr

835AA6D7-95C7-4091-89CE-36E24BCA0D22 by majmontana, on Flickr

 

 

F998362D-A345-4C08-9893-949E07DDEC5E by majmontana, on Flickr

 

​I was very impressed with the accuracy of the Xavier Jubier utility in predicting the Baily’s beads for my location.

 

23C8B025-8E57-4E3D-B332-EB58989B89F4 by majmontana, on Flickr

 

BBA02E4E-AFE9-4B05-AFBB-57CD8FB80FDB by majmontana, on Flickr

​0E5B377E-7B63-4708-93CB-6A5F1B591837 by majmontana, on Flickr

Edited by maj, 17 April 2024 - 08:12 AM.

[jrussell]

So my pictures are nothing exciting as I was using a sun funnel, but you can tell how cloudy it was when the eclipse started compared to when it was ending. The one picture shows the clouds about 5 minutes before totality. Fortunately they cleared up more before totality but even at that level they weren't really a problem.

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[R Botero]

Final processing of what I captured from Mazatlan: 

 

The eclipse was visually spectacular despite the high clouds. Really looking forward to clear skies in Luxor in 2027 to capture some corona streamers. 
More versions of the rings, Baily’s beads, prominences and a time-lapse here: https://www.astrobin.com/0ef83r/F/

 

Roberto

[Starry_Spruce]

I posted this in a separate thread, but figured I'd add it here as well. Pretty exciting to capture a little sungrazer comet, SOHO-5008

 

 

And here are a few broiled/stylized photos that help locate it.

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[Starry_Spruce]

Did you do a radial blur to get more Coronal detail? You can get that ring around the center when the sun isn't perfectly centered. This is what my hold-up has been with the Espenak method. I can't get it perfectly centered no matter how hard I try...

Are you doing it with a stack of images? My guess is that if you aligned to the stars and/or prominences (sun), the movement of the moon is elongating the black disc so it's no longer circular. The only workaround I can think of is to mask in a fresh moon from a single image afterwards and figure out a way to blend the transition space adjacent to the moon (such as have it be blown out white, or spend more time blending coronal detail with gradient filters or something).

[dcaponeii]

Spent some time with the data today from my 12" scope.  Have a couple images to share.

 

First is the full disk near Max totality.

 

[dcaponeii]

This second image was obtained using AS!4 to generate 2 image stacks.  I was trying to isolate Bailey's Beads but alas I was a bit over exposed and the bright regions are totally blown out.  I can tell they are in there but I can't pull them out from the stark white blown out pixels.

 

[chvvkumar]

This is the best I could do with my corona sequence so far ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

Edited by chvvkumar, 16 April 2024 - 10:20 PM.

[dissent]

 

I was in Spencer, Indiana, so I had a pretty similar experience to what maj saw

 

 

A composite of images around C2. Unfortunately I bumbled  the start of my photo sequence around C3 so missed the Baily's beads there.

[VStwKE]

Great Images!  

We managed to find a spot in Brady, TX at the northern edge of the shadow's path with only light high clouds. Minutes before totality some low clouds passed through and evoked a little panic feeling, but right for the main event they passed us by. Well worth the trip from Germany!

 

 

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Edited by VStwKE, 17 April 2024 - 03:24 AM.

[Lukey]

Here's my effort at an HDR image, comprised of 13 images at different exposures from 4 seconds to 1/1000 sec. Magog, Canada.

Canon 700d, Sigma 150-500mm zoom @ 400mm, f/11. Processed in Photoshop.

 

[NickLandis2023]

Are you doing it with a stack of images? My guess is that if you aligned to the stars and/or prominences (sun), the movement of the moon is elongating the black disc so it's no longer circular. The only workaround I can think of is to mask in a fresh moon from a single image afterwards and figure out a way to blend the transition space adjacent to the moon (such as have it be blown out white, or spend more time blending coronal detail with gradient filters or something).

No, it’s just a single exposure.

[Larry Patriarca]

Shot thru a Nikon camera (by a friend) thru my WO Anniversary Edition 80mm Zenithstar

[dissent]

 

another eclipse composite around C2. Not yet satisfied with  totality results so still working on that.

 

 

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switched out the totality image from the composite above.

Edited by dissent, 18 April 2024 - 12:11 AM.

[dizzydlz]

My try at HDR with a set of stacked images in photoshop.  11 images contributing from 1.5ms - 2 sec. taken with ASI2600duo with Sharpcap script.  Location Petit Jean Mountain Arkansas.

[joofcorn]

Finally finished a couple of my edits.  Seems everyone in here like me was way more into C3 prominences than C2.  Wide corona was images using a Zenithstar 61 and .8 flattener with a CanonT6s.  The close ups were from the SVBONY SV503 80mm, a 2x barlow, with a Panasonic G9.  Canon controlled via windows and Eclipse Orchestrator, the G9 using mac and Solar Eclipse Maestro.
Raw images were processed using Rawtherapee, exported as 32 bit TIFF.  Then further stacking and processing was done using Affinity Photo 2.  I have a small write up for the corona stack here in case anyone is looking for affinity tips https://www.cloudyni...affinity-photo/

 

 

Edited by joofcorn, 17 April 2024 - 06:02 PM.

[Dave Mitsky]

Some truly amazing images of totality have been posted in this thread.  Thanks one and all.

[Tim J Fowler]

I'm still experimenting, but this is the best I've gotten so far in trying to get an HDR image of the corona using GIMP, using 7 different exposures ranging from 1/640 sec to 1.3 seconds. The camera was controlled by BackyardEOS, since I didn't really have time to learn any new software. Taken in Russellville, Arkansas using my old Canon T3i with the kit 75-300mm lens at 300mm, F11, ISO 200, mounted on a Sky Watcher Star Adventurer.

Honestly, I was more focused on observing the event since I hardly looked at all at the 2017 Eclipse.

Tim

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[Lukey]

An animation of the whole eclipse from start to finish. Magog, Canada.

Canon 700d, Sigma 150-500mm zoom @ 400mm, f/11. Processed in Photoshop.

 

[EricTheCat]

More fun with eclipse data.  I call this one sunrise.

 

 

 

[ericjaakkola]

[felsby]

 

Light cloud cover in Mazatlán blurred the corona, but allowed a lot of detail to pass through, fortunately.

 

First post in this exciting forum! Kind Regards

Sven Felsby, Denmark

[ericjaakkola]

 

 

Light cloud cover in Mazatlán blurred the corona, but allowed a lot of detail to pass through, fortunately.

 

First post in this exciting forum! Kind Regards

Sven Felsby, Denmark

I originally was going to Mazatlan, but I couldn't find a reasonable flight from Mexico City.  How did you get there?

[felsby]

I originally was going to Mazatlan, but I couldn't find a reasonable flight from Mexico City.  How did you get there?

We flew with AeroMexico from Mexico City the 5th of April. We bought the tickets a year before, as we were afraid they would sell out. 
Where did you go then?

Edited by felsby, 18 April 2024 - 02:38 PM.