Solar Eclipse 8 April 2024 with Earthshine
Composite image of the total solar eclipse on 8 April 2024 from Bloomington, Indiana, in collaboration with Jack Speaker. It shows the faint outer corona, brighter inner corona, prominences, and earthshine (sunlight reflected from Earth illuminating shadowed Moon) assembled from separate frames taken throughout totality. Exposures varying from 1/3200 sec., f/11, ISO 100 to 1/2 sec., f/8, ISO 1600. Two cameras operated with Moonglow Technologies Eclipse Orchestrator Pro: Nikon D850 and Explore Scientific ED102 FCD-100 102mm f/7 apochromatic refractor (714mm focal length), Explore Scientific flattener, Losmandy GM811G mount (inner corona, prominences); Nikon D850, Nikon 500mm f/5.6, ZWO AM5 mount (outer corona). Processed in Adobe Lightroom, composited in Photoshop with layer masks.
Solar Eclipse 8 April 2024 with Earthshine
Composite image of the total solar eclipse on 8 April 2024 from Bloomington, Indiana, in collaboration with Jack Speaker. It shows the faint outer corona, brighter inner corona, prominences, and earthshine (sunlight reflected from Earth illuminating shadowed Moon) assembled from separate frames taken throughout totality. Exposures varying from 1/3200 sec., f/11, ISO 100 to 1/2 sec., f/8, ISO 1600. Two cameras operated with Moonglow Technologies Eclipse Orchestrator Pro: Nikon D850 and Explore Scientific ED102 FCD-100 102mm f/7 apochromatic refractor (714mm focal length), Explore Scientific flattener, Losmandy GM811G mount (inner corona, prominences); Nikon D850, Nikon 500mm f/5.6, ZWO AM5 mount (outer corona). Processed in Adobe Lightroom, composited in Photoshop with layer masks.