• @lefty7283OPEnglish
    18•7 months ago

    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:

    Flickr | Instagram

    Equipment:

    • TPO 6" F/4 Imaging Newtonian

    • Orion Sirius EQ-G

    • Canon T3i (Ha modded)

    • Skywatcher Quattro Coma Corrector

    • Moonlite Autofocuser

    Acquisition:

    • Single 1/4000" exposure at ISO 100

    Capture Software:

    • Eclipse Orchestrator Free for automating the capture sequence

    • NINA for controlling the mount and autofocuser

    Photoshop processing:

    • Crop, and some minor adjustments to exposure, contrast, shadows, whites, and blacks, and slight S curve
    • @seven_phone
      2•7 months ago

      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.

    • fmstrat
      2•7 months ago

      Any chance you would be willing to share in high res? This is an amazing shot.

    • partial_accumen
      2•7 months ago

      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.

  • athos77
    8•7 months ago

    We’re at solar maximum this year, so the solar flares are much more active (should be a good year for auroras).

    OP, if you haven’t already, please consider submitting your photos to the SunSketcher project, which is partnered with NASA in helping to define the shape of the sun.

      • athos77
        2•7 months ago

        That’s for the app, which then auto-uploaded the pictures it took. You should be able to email pictures to one of the investigators; their names and affiliations are on the website.

  • @Mango
    3•7 months ago

    This is actually the clearest and nicest eclipse pic ever!