Anyone have success with the Eclipse? From the north shore of Lake Erie, we had perfect skies until after mid eclipse when some thin cloud rolled in. Here's a few cropped, unprocessed shots for your enjoyment. Moon covers a sunspot: Start of Totality: Corona: End of Totality: Diamond ring: Bigger Karat:
I didn't really try to photograph the eclipse this time. I have some really good pictures from past eclipses, and given the marginal conditions decided not to try. I did see totality through thin clouds, so the corona was nothing to write home about, but the prominences were beautiful. I was glad that I just used an eyepiece in the small telescope I brought. Well, okay, given that I had a whole 3:17 of totality I couldn't resist grabbing my DSLR for a few telephoto shots. I literally grabbed the camera, fired off quick shots while randomly turning the shutter speed dial, and then tossed it back in the camera bag. Most of them were either overexposed or underexposed. Here's the one that was not entirely terrible: Gotta say the third contact diamond ring was really intensely spectacular this time. It appears that the sun shone through a lunar valley - there was just this tiny pinprick of light that got brighter and brighter without spreading along into beads.
The Corona image and Doug's image are exceptional. I took this image from SW UT-USA with 80mm scope, Herschel wedge and smartphone.
The totality images look spectacular. Maybe try adjusting the color balance though? The corona should be pure white, and the prominences pure red.
I haven't figured that out Doug, I've tried. It's either all white or all color. I've seen a few others like you say but I think they have used a dslr while I used a mono planetary camera. I see your shot was with a dslr.
Here are a few images I managed to take from the TSP at Latham Springs Camp in Texas. This was my first total eclipse, and I didn't want to miss out on seeing it, so the photographs were just icing on the cake. We had a lot of passing clouds with just enough breaks to allow us to see the progress of the event. The images are monochrome taken with a ST2000-XM camera through an Astro-Physics Stowaway with a Baader Solar Screen in front of the lens and a 540 nm solar continuum filter in the filter wheel of the camera. This combination was the only thing that allowed me to get any useable images during the partial phases. During totality, I used only a luminance filter. All exposures were 0.001 second. I was only able to take the one image during totality. Mike
