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.
Four days later, what word below best describes the online conversational health of #eclipse2024#solareclipse#eclispe in a post-Twitter social architecture?
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
Its OK to be scientifically ignorant. But it's not OK to be scientifically ignorant, and stand before a crowd of students and make #unscientific assertions as if they were fact. And it's not OK to respond to people who point out the absurdity of your unscientific remarks with deflections and insults. You said something dumb. Just acknowledge it, correct it, and move on.
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.
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.
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.
After just a few minutes, the Sun is noticeably eclipsed by the Moon. It took just over an hour from the start to reach totality.
The edge of the Sun appears darker than the centre, an effect known as limb-darkening. This occurs because the Sun is cooler at the top of its atmosphere than it is deeper down. Regions of the sun that are cooler give off less light, and at the edges we are only seeing the cooler upper layers of the atmosphere, so they appear darker.
The first seconds of the total solar eclipse, with the Moon just starting to clip the limb of the Sun on the lower right side.
Near the centre and upper left of the Sun are prominent sunspots, regions of the Sun's atmosphere that are held in place by powerful magnetic fields. This allows them to cool without sinking back into lower layers to reheat. Being cooler than their surroundings means they give off less light, and so appear as dark spots.
In today's episode of Watching the Eclipse Watchers, some Opinions about science:
the eclipse is fake news, because I saw a video of it were it glitches and everything moved to the left (obviously the camera was moved to get a better angle, nobody moved the astral bodies)
you know they lie to us about all this because you can see the sun and moon are the same size
"somebody explain to me how the moon, which is transparent/translucent during the day, blocks the sun out I'll wait 😂"
discussion over how this is an event in a spiritual war, because of shadow bands*
Did you use a colander to see or take pics of the eclipse? I know we laugh at it, but I seriously enjoy seeing others’ colander pics. In such a divided time, at least we all have colanders in common! Anyone remember Hands Across America? This is like that, but with colanders 🤣 Please post your pics and use the hashtag #Colanderstronomy (and maybe #ColandersAcrossAmerica?). Here’s mine, from #Colorado: