Reprocessed with a focus on the prominences. Happy with the result here although I want to redo it again to see if I can get better detail on the corona. 🔭🧪
Five days out from #Eclipse2024, I'm working through the experience and processing it both psychologically and digitally.
These images from around totality, are still frames extracted from white-light HD video made near Kerrville, Texas. Far from ruining the experience, the clouds overhead at our site added a haunting, ethereal quality to the result.
I was running a Coronado PST on a tracking mount and taking images with my phone. This sequence just before and at second contact shows features in the solar chromosphere disappearing as the eclipse becomes total. Time increases from top to bottom.
The second image is essentially the same sequence in white light taken through a 100-mm refractor at the same time.
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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.
I've finally started to sort out the eclipse photos from my big camera. This came just a few seconds after my diamond ring photo, so let's call this a ruby ring.
I'm not completely sure what's going on here to create the red color. I think the red is from the Sun's chromosphere. Then maybe the red is being refracted then scattered a bit by the high cloud cover we had during totality. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
My view of the 3.5 minute totality in Sherbrooke Quebec, April 8, 2024. The surprise for me and clearly 100's of astonished people around me, was the huge difference between 99% and totality. At 99% the sun is still incredibly bright and you cannot look at with the naked eye. Then in an instant it sort of flashes and goes black and you can look directly at the eclipse without a filter. It was actually much darker on the ground than the camera made it look in this photo. #eclipse#eclipse2024
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Over the course of an hour, the Moon slowly engulfed the Sun, taking a gradually larger bite out of it until, mere seconds before totality, there was nothing left but the thinnest of slivers. As this occurred, the landscape gradually became darker, as if it were close to sunset, but the light somehow became harsher as it grew dimmer. Things felt as if some kind of cinematic filter was being used in real life.
For 3 minutes & 20 seconds, the Sun's surface remained totally hidden, and we lived within the Moon's shadow. In the sky hung a black orb, surrounded by brilliant, diamond-like fire, with splashes of hot pink, and a bright, ghostly aura.
The pink areas are solar prominences, giant arches of solar material that dive in and out of the Sun's surface, powered by its strong magnetic fields. The white is the Sun's corona, it's upper atmosphere.
I realized I'd been spreading my #Eclipse2024 observations across a bunch of different platforms so I wrote up some notes for a blog post and paired them with a small Flickr photo gallery.