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This photo shows almost a full solar diameter of the corona. The prominences are pretty much overwhelmed by the brightness of the corona. I also think that in the light breeze my fully extended tripod wobbled a bit during the long exposure. Oops...
Total Solar Eclipse, Conway, Arkansas. This trip was quite the exhausting adventure, but a fruitful one nonetheless. A family trip to Korea with my wife' side of the family preceded my flight to Waco, Texas, so I was already exhausted. Upon landing In Waco, we discovered that the weather conditions were not ideal for eclipse photography with heavy cloud cover and a MAJOR storm looming, Jet lagged, my wife and woke up at 1 am on the day of the eclipse in Waco, TX. I honestly believe I was nudged by my recently deceased mother so that I could reassess, make new plans, and head to Conway, Arkansas, a lovely little city that was 6 hours away from Waco. So, at 1 am we discovered that weather conditions were more ideal in Arkansas, made the long drive, and got to Conway around 9am. We checked into a Motel 6, headed out to a local children's park, and prayed for the weather to behave. Indeed it did. I bracketed 7 exposures, 2 EV apart, to insure I had the right exposures for blending.
As you go through the next few photos, do keep an eye out on the prominences at both the 6- and 3-o'clock positions (south and east, respectively).
Within the 4-min of totality, you can observe their eruptions. The one at 6 o'clock is so bright that it can be seen with the naked eyes! The prominence eruption at 3 o'clock is of a lesser intensity.
I travelled to Dallas to visit some immediate and extended family to view the eclipse. The forecast had been iffy leading up to it, but a couple blocks from my uncle's house we lucked out and got some unobstructed totality. We only had about 2 and a half minutes of totality (some of that with some wispy clouds in the way), and in that length of time I had to rapidly figure out a few good compositions and exposures for a completely new shooting experience. This shot is really as good as I could have hoped for, sharply capturing all the main elements of a total solar eclipse in one frame: nice coronal structure, a bit of "diamond ring", Bailey's beads, and a few prominences.
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You can see a few solar flares visible on the sides.
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April 8, 2024
Cheers to the total solar eclipse in Burlington, Vermont!
Four Quarters Brewing in Winooski, Vermont brewed this wonderful IPA to commemorate this amazing event.
Burlington, VT Waterfront
Lake Champlain
Burlington, Vermont - USA
Photo by brucetopher
© Bruce Christopher 2024
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...always learning - critiques welcome.
Tools: Canon 7D & iPhone 14.
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Viewing the Solar Eclipse in Salem, NH with my co-workers. My company made special t-shirts for the event. Music and snacks and free solar glasses made it a memorable event!
I brought a few homemade viewers to use since I didn't have the right solar filter for my camera. My cereal box viewer was great. But my favorite photo was of the shadows of the crescent as it was filtered through the tree branches onto a white plastic picnic table!
April 8, 2024
Total eclipse after totality. Viewed from the Lake Champlain waterfront in Burlington, Vermont
Lake Champlain
Burlington, Vermont - USA
Photo by brucetopher
© Bruce Christopher 2024
All Rights Reserved
...always learning - critiques welcome.
Tools: Canon 7D & iPhone 14.
No use without permission.
Please email for usage info.
Viewing the Solar Eclipse in Salem, NH with my co-workers. My company made special t-shirts for the event. Music and snacks and free solar glasses made it a memorable event!
I brought a few homemade viewers to use since I didn't have the right solar filter for my camera. My cereal box viewer was great. But my favorite photo was of the shadows of the crescent as it was filtered through the tree branches onto a white plastic picnic table!
Shot using Sky-Watcher Evostar 72ED (72/420mm), field flattener and Sony A7 III (ISO100, 1/8000) on a Sky-Watcher Adventurer tracker.
Pre-processed using RawTherapee.
Images aligned manually in GIMP.
Post-processed using RawTherapee.
While driving to Plano, we heard a podcast by someone who had viewed many solar eclipses. He said that sometimes totality can make the clouds disappeared. Sure enough, clouds just magically gone shortly after the end of totality.
Below is the link to the NPR podcast. The play button to the audio is near the top of the webpage. I found the information very useful.
www.npr.org/2024/04/01/1199886060/life-kit-how-to-chase-t...