Totality with Corona, Flares, and Baily's Beads
One of my photos of the sun from two days ago. I decided to feature this image by itself due to the magnificent solar flares, visible in the sun's corona near the bottom left and about a third the way up from the bottom right. I took this particular image as the "diamond ring" (Baily's Beads) was appearing after complete obscuration of the sun. Given the massive size of our sun, I would imagine that the largest of the three flares is probably bigger than our entire planet. What an amazing sight!
I made this photograph in Summerside on Prince Edward Island, Canada. I used my eleven year old Olympus OM-D E-M1 and M.Zuiko 100-400mm f/5.0-6.3 mounted to a sturdy tripod. The raw image was processed in DxO PhotoLab 6.x. For this photo, I selected an aperture of f/9.0 and a shutter speed of 1/2000th at ISO 200. I removed my solar filter briefly during the period of complete occultation when just the corona was visible.
Totality with Corona, Flares, and Baily's Beads
One of my photos of the sun from two days ago. I decided to feature this image by itself due to the magnificent solar flares, visible in the sun's corona near the bottom left and about a third the way up from the bottom right. I took this particular image as the "diamond ring" (Baily's Beads) was appearing after complete obscuration of the sun. Given the massive size of our sun, I would imagine that the largest of the three flares is probably bigger than our entire planet. What an amazing sight!
I made this photograph in Summerside on Prince Edward Island, Canada. I used my eleven year old Olympus OM-D E-M1 and M.Zuiko 100-400mm f/5.0-6.3 mounted to a sturdy tripod. The raw image was processed in DxO PhotoLab 6.x. For this photo, I selected an aperture of f/9.0 and a shutter speed of 1/2000th at ISO 200. I removed my solar filter briefly during the period of complete occultation when just the corona was visible.