Next picture in 58 seconds!
I wanted to get a picture to show my eclipse computer in action. One thing it did was to alert me when to take pictures during the partial part of the eclipse so that I would have pictures showing the sequence of the occultation. I must not have realized it was about time for the next image of the sun when I took this image. The pictured computer beeped a warning 60 seconds and 30 seconds beforehand, and then a different series of beeps (3 short, one long) to help me time the image to much greater precision than is needed. After I took this image, I switched to the camera on my tripod that was already looking in the general direction of the sun, and centered the sun in the frame.
The eclipse computer worked out great, but one flaw is that the schedule of the pictures showing the partial eclipse was not recorded. I'm going to modify the code to re-generate the schedule for the location of totality, which the computer did record. I also configured the computer to invoke gphoto2 to set the clock of any camera that was connected to its USB port, and I used this feature, so the time stamps on the pictures should be pretty good.
Next picture in 58 seconds!
I wanted to get a picture to show my eclipse computer in action. One thing it did was to alert me when to take pictures during the partial part of the eclipse so that I would have pictures showing the sequence of the occultation. I must not have realized it was about time for the next image of the sun when I took this image. The pictured computer beeped a warning 60 seconds and 30 seconds beforehand, and then a different series of beeps (3 short, one long) to help me time the image to much greater precision than is needed. After I took this image, I switched to the camera on my tripod that was already looking in the general direction of the sun, and centered the sun in the frame.
The eclipse computer worked out great, but one flaw is that the schedule of the pictures showing the partial eclipse was not recorded. I'm going to modify the code to re-generate the schedule for the location of totality, which the computer did record. I also configured the computer to invoke gphoto2 to set the clock of any camera that was connected to its USB port, and I used this feature, so the time stamps on the pictures should be pretty good.