Finally done with classes and I got some time to at least star processing my pics. Gonna be a while before I figure out all the HDR stuff, so here’s a pic of the prominences about 10 seconds before C3. It was absolutely nutty seeing them naked eye during the eclipse, and visually through my other telescope. Captured on April 8th, 2024 from Sikeston, MO.
One of them looked much larger with the naked eye during totality. It appeared to be almost 1/4 the diameter of the sun and extended out at about 8 o’clock when viewed from the Midwest USA. It was also a color red I’ve never seen before in my life. No photo or artificial light has ever looked like it to me before.
A wonderful picture - very odd thing the sun is exactly 400 times bigger than the moon and exactly 400 times further away so we get these perfect eclipses.
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Finally done with classes and I got some time to at least star processing my pics. Gonna be a while before I figure out all the HDR stuff, so here’s a pic of the prominences about 10 seconds before C3. It was absolutely nutty seeing them naked eye during the eclipse, and visually through my other telescope. Captured on April 8th, 2024 from Sikeston, MO.
Places where I host my other images:
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Equipment:
TPO 6" F/4 Imaging Newtonian
Orion Sirius EQ-G
Canon T3i (Ha modded)
Skywatcher Quattro Coma Corrector
Moonlite Autofocuser
Acquisition:
Capture Software:
Eclipse Orchestrator Free for automating the capture sequence
NINA for controlling the mount and autofocuser
Photoshop processing:
One of them looked much larger with the naked eye during totality. It appeared to be almost 1/4 the diameter of the sun and extended out at about 8 o’clock when viewed from the Midwest USA. It was also a color red I’ve never seen before in my life. No photo or artificial light has ever looked like it to me before.
Any chance you would be willing to share in high res? This is an amazing shot.
This is already the highest res (at least in terms of being zoomed in), but here’s the entire uncropped photo
Thanks!
A wonderful picture - very odd thing the sun is exactly 400 times bigger than the moon and exactly 400 times further away so we get these perfect eclipses.