Having never photographed a #SolarEclipse I had no idea what I was doing and rolled with it in the moment. I’m pretty happy with the final product, it turned out better than I expected! Definitely a wild experience 🌑☀️
Another from the eclipse on Monday. Taken at Rangeley Lake, in Maine, during the totality for the main image. The other instances of the eclipse were composited in, in the position they were in at the time the image was taken. Each instance of the eclipse if 15 minutes after the previous instance. Prints available.
So many photos from the eclipse. I don't know what to do with all of them. Here's one of my favorite single subs. This was from just before the end of totality, and the prominences were incredible
I just posted a long thread about our eclipse adventures, but this was the only photo I managed. I hauled my fancy, expensive astrophotography gear up with ambitions of capturing a lengthy timelapse, but none of it worked (battery wouldn't power up despite a full charge, mini PC wouldn't connect to wifi hotspot despite dozens of prior tests). It was still well worth the experience, but I would have loved to capture some better photos.
I focused more on experiencing the solar #eclipse than taking pictures, but here are my pathetic-excuse-of-pictures at #totality. It was partly cloudy but luckily enough breaks throughout at critical junctures. The clouds did add interesting dimension to the experience, like the accentuated blue.
1 Fully eclipsed sun through thin clouds
2 Same as 1 but no clouds
3 Ultrawide shot w a star usually visible only at night. Do you spot it?
The ultrawide shot 👆🏽 marked up with a thin red circle around a star that is usually visible only at night. It got so dark at totality that we actually could see stars.
PS: I don't know how much of the original picture quality Mastodon/Fediverse preserves.
Eden, Ollie and I, with old friend Shawn, experienced total eclipse in Vincennes, Indiana. Seeing it with one's own eyes, being baptized in the shadow and corona, feeling the chill of darkness, hearing birds sing eveningsong in midafternoon is the thing, not the snapshots we took with our phones. So here's my eclipse in art. I hope you can feel a bit of the chill.
My pastel sketch of #totality during yesterday's #TotalSolarEclipse. I wasn't there to see it in person this time, but I used the amazing photo shared by Tom Kerss (with permission) as a reference image. The #corona looked so different yesterday than it did when we saw the 2017 eclipse because we were in solar minimum then and near solar maximum now. There were several lovely #prominences visible too #AstronomySketching#SunSketch
4 photos I shot during the totality of the eclipse. Red spots around the edges are solar prominences. These images were shot within 1 minute. The bright spot near the bottom grows into a full arch with a visible hollow by the last picture. #TotalEclipse#Totality#SolarPromenence
Here are some photos from my phone during a trip to catch the solar eclipse in Waco, Texas. It suddenly turned very cloudy as it entered totality but I managed to capture a glimpse before it was completely covered by clouds.
So. That was impressive. Here’s a quick sample from the backyard. Of note: temperature drop from 79.3 to 74.8, #solar production from the panels dropped to 0 and the house draw from the grid was the usual constant 420 watts, once the sun started coming back out the panels ramped back up, the temperature continued to drop for a few minutes to 74.5 but finally started edging up, and the dog could give a shit and just wandered around sniffing like usual.
Wow. The pictures don’t do it justice. Jupiter was visible to the left and Venus to the right (not in picture).
...and here's a video of #eclipse#totality. Pretty fun to have seen two solar eclipses in pretty much optimal locations (clouds today notwithstanding) in less than six months.
4m 25s of #totality in Fredericksburg earlier today for the #eclipse, 1.02+ magnitude. Was pretty cloudy here but the sun peeked through enough that what we saw was pretty awe-inspiring. Maybe @Tylae will post some pix that she took (I didn't have a filter on my phone so I only took stuff near/at totality).
My only good shot from totality (after I remembered to take the filter off the lens! 🤦♂️🤣). Totality was amazing and so I was drinking it all in. Temps dropped a good 10 degrees F, mosquitoes came out, the birds stopped singing, everyone’s solar lights came on, and it was incredibly dark. Really amazing!
And then it was over and everything started returning to normal!
There was of course only one song that could be used as the musical background 🤣
Not that I was just pointing an iPad with an added optical lens up at the sky. I wasn’t aiming for high quality photos… just more to have some memories of an amazing experience.