240408 solar eclipse (totality)

[Click]

Pretty cool. Well done, josephandrews222.

 

[RaPhoto]

After arriving home from a round trip of 4500miles by car I can finally start processing my solar eclipse photos in earnest.

First up are a couple of frame grabs from my R8+RF10-20mm 4k movie.
Photo 1 - Note the light cloud cover which was a vast improvement from the day before and after when we had pouring rain. About 10min prior to totality.
Photo 2 - Totality! Note Jupiter in the lower right from the sun. The temperature dropped about 10 degrees F from the start of the eclipse to totality.

What's cool about doing a movie with scuzzy skies during an eclipse is watching the Moon's shadow crossing the sky. We couldn't observe this phenomenon in 2017 on the Oregon/Idaho border with perfect skies.

 

[EricN]

After arriving home from a round trip of 4500miles by car I can finally start processing my solar eclipse photos in earnest.

First up are a couple of frame grabs from my R8+RF10-20mm 4k movie.
Photo 1 - Note the light cloud cover which was a vast improvement from the day before and after when we had pouring rain. About 10min prior to totality.
Photo 2 - Totality! Note Jupiter in the lower right from the sun. The temperature dropped about 10 degrees F from the start of the eclipse to totality.

What's cool about doing a movie with scuzzy skies during an eclipse is watching the Moon's shadow crossing the sky. We couldn't observe this phenomenon in 2017 on the Oregon/Idaho border with perfect skies.View attachment 216142View attachment 216143

It's great you were able to show Jupiter! I had read there was a small chance of a comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, but it looks like that didn't happen.

 

[RaPhoto]

Part 2. My 2nd rig for the eclipse was my R7+RF200-800 at 800mm. I used this rig to get the best solar photosphere detail during the eclipse phase and chromosphere prominences during totality

Photo 1 is my reference full disk solar image taken at the end of the eclipse. (Note: Original white light image modified to enhance faculae and granulation detailed with color palette change). Large scale surface inhomogeneities are due to wispy clouds. Very happy with detail from this single image (I usually stack ~100 images when doing solar imaging).
Photos 2 and 3 are from the initial and final phase of totality. Bailey's beads are evident. The moon's larger angular size is only allowing the largest prominence to peak through at the bottom of photo 2.
Photos 4 and 5 superimpose the full disk image at its approximate location behind the lunar shadow. The lack of symmetry of the exit points shows that we were not at the exact center of totality.

 

[Click]

Awesome! Well done, RaPhoto.

 

[docsmith]

Great images RaPhoto!

 

[RaPhoto]

Part 3. My 3rd rig for the eclipse was my R5+RF100-500 at 500mm. I used this rig to get the best extended corona detail during totality.

Photo 1. Is the corona as opened in ACR.
Photo 2. The same image is processed with some HDR magic to bring out details of magnetic field lines and loops.
Photo 3. Close up of corona using rig 2 (R7+200-800mm) as opened in ACR.
Photo 4. Same image as in 3. but again, with HDR processing to show off some cool structures in the near Corona and Chromosphere.