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In the Pacific NW, the clouds mostly obscured the partial eclipse, but I was able to get a couple of shots.
I had much better luck during the 2017 eclipse!
Not perfect by any means but the shots are about 4 minutes apart. It was so awesome to be in the path of totality so I am delighted we drove the 3 hours to get there.
Watching the planetary dance from the location of one of the turning points of America's Revolutionary War. Oorah..
I combined an image from the start of totality (C2) with one from the end of totality (C3) to show the incredible prominences we were treated to. C2 is on the left side and C3 is the right side. The Sun was putting on quite a show despite the high clouds.
Mazatlan, Mexico. Sony A7IV, Sony 200-600mm f/6.3 at 600mm. ZWO AM3 tracker
Lots of learning for a bit over 4 minutes of totality. I’ll definitely be ready for the next one, when I’m 90.
Total solar eclipse, viewed in front of The Planetarium at The University of Texas at Arlington.
Arlington, Texas
Monday afternoon 8 April 2024
It was an very cloudy day in Austin. I wasn't sure what I was going to get, but Austin was in the path of totality so I had to try. Taken with a 16.5 stop ND filter.
Baily’s Beads Detail
A closeup of the Baily's Beads and proms at C3.
From Wikipedia: "As the Moon covers the Sun during a solar eclipse, the rugged topography of the lunar limb allows beads of sunlight to shine through in some places while not in others. They are named for Francis Baily, who explained the effects in 1836”
Sony A7IV, Sony 200-600mm f/6.3 at 600mm. ISO100. ZWO AM3 tracker
Lors d'une éclipse totale de soleil, la couronne solaire apparaît comme un halo fantomatique autour de la silhouette de la Lune.
La couronne solaire constitue en quelque sorte l’atmosphère du Soleil. Cette région, qui débute au-dessus de la surface visible du Soleil et s’étend sur des millions de kilomètres dans l’espace, est normalement invisible en raison de sa faible luminosité, comparée à celle du disque solaire.
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During a total solar eclipse, the solar corona appears as a ghostly halo around the Moon's silhouette.
The solar corona is the Sun's atmosphere. This region, which begins above the Sun's visible surface and extends millions of kilometers into space, is normally invisible due to its low luminosity compared with that of the solar disk.
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Source: www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idees/810448/idees-science-eclipses
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Solar prominences, and they're vivid arcs or filaments that have erupted from the sun's surface. Extending hundreds to thousands of miles into space, these phenomena can last weeks to months.
Double Diamond Ring Composite
The Diamond Rings at both C2 and C3 are composited into a single image. It is also possible to see the Baily’s Beads and red prominences that were seen at those times. C2 is on the left and C3 is on the right.
Baily’s Beads are formed when the eclipsed Sun peaks out from behind the valleys of the Moon while the rest of the Sun is eclipsed by the mountains on the Moon. They are very brief, but spectacular
Sony A7IV, Sony FE 200-600mm f/6.3 lens at 600mm, f/8, ISO100 and bracketed from 1/8000 to 1/30 for this phase. Tracked using a ZWO AM3 EQ tracker
Gómez Palacio, Mexico. What two years ago was one of the most promising locations to view the 2024 eclipse ended up being drenched in cloud cover on and off in the days leading up to the event. Fortunately, the clouds thinned enough just before totality to experience almost the entirety of the awe that was promised. Unfortunately, the remaining clouds severely limited what was possible, or at least what I am capable of photographing. So no detailed shots of the different layers of the corona or flaring diamond rings. There were solar prominences galore, and I did manage to get some of that. So there will still be a bunch of eclipse-pics coming up.
Animals coming back very soon.
I set up my 50mm lens to try to get Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks with the eclipsed Sun, but all I got was this stupid Strand of Pearls shot...... :-)
Sony A7S3, Sony 24-70mm f/2.8 at 50mm and f/8, ISO100, 1/400s for the partial eclipse phases
After returning home from my post-eclipse trip, I finally have time to work on my solar eclipse images.
This is my first processed result, showing the stunning solar corona. The image is an HDR composite of 14 exposures, covering 12 exposure stops. I also mixed in the solar prominences and Baily's Beads captured at C2 and C3.
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Canon EOS-R, astro-modified
Canon RF100-500 f/5.6-7.1 L IS USM
Skywatcher AZ-GTI
HDR image from 14 exposures between 1/2500s and 2s.
Voici ce que l'éclipse totale du soleil permet de voir quand la lune cache complètement le soleil: La couronne solaire et une partie de sa chromosphère visible dans les proéminences rougâtres. Les températures dans la couronne peuvent frôler deux millions de degrés!
(Rognage maximum 1:1)
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This is what the total solar eclipse allows us to see, like the corona and its chromosphere in the red prominences along the limb. The corona temperature is around 2 million degrees!
(Full crop 1:1)
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See the amazing prominences on the lower limb of the sun during totality as seen in this HDR edit of totality.
All the best shots in one sequence. Sun was lost to the clouds shortly after the eclipse hence the incomplete sequence. There was persistent cloud cover which caused lots of diffusion.
Shot on Nikon D7500 - 300mm
Baily's Beads is named after British astronomer Francis Baily, who discovered the eclipse phenomenon. This effect looks like beads of light poking out from around the Moon's shadow. It happens because the Moon's rugged terrain allows sunlight to pass through before totality.
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. You can even see the magnetic field lines in the corona around some of the prominences!
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A blending of 5 images taken in succession at the beginning of totality. Canon 5DM4 with Tamron 150-600mm G2 @ 600mm f/6.3 ISO 400 1/2500s 1/1000s 1/400s 1/160s 1/60s. Post-processing in LRC, PS, and Topaz Denoise AI.
I finally found the time to sort trough all my images of the 2024 Solar Eclipse and to create this composite image, showing the different phases of the stunning event.
Starting clockwise from uneclipsed Sun top center, the image shows the progression of the partial phase until totality begins with the Baily's Beads and the solar prominences on the bottom center right.
From bottom center left the opposite sequence starts with the Baily's Beads and the even bigger prominences at end of totality, followed by the second partial phase until the Moon finally disappears again on top.
In the center of this circle is the eclipsed sun and the magnificent solar corona during totality.
The diamond ring effect is one of the most distinctive features of a total eclipse of the Sun. It appears immediately before and after totality, the period when the Sun is completely obscured by the Moon.
85 seconds of shootable totality blessed the historical Post Office clocktower in Dundas, Ontario as well as its local residents and a small handful of fellow amateur photographers. After briefly hanging out with my grandparents and a mistaken ride on the wrong bus, a scramble to head west of Lake Ontario where overcast was quickly cleaning up landed me here where a thin veil of clouds were still lingering, but transparent enough to enable a fine viewing of the solar corona.