Total Solar Eclipse

[4huskers]

 

[jeffashman]

Nice image! I'm going to process mine later today, but a cursory view showed some solar flares jumping from the surface.

 

[480sparky]

I won't bother with trying to record eclipses. I'd rather watch, experience and enjoy them. But that's just me.

 

[Jeff15]

Nice shot, lucky you.....

 

[Rickbb]

Nice image, was only 85% or so here so no flares, so no pics. Just watched.

 

[smoke665]

Nice shot. We didn't have total coverage either. Learned that a cellphone inside a welding helmet produces a green blob, so no pictures for me either.

 

[terri]

Beautiful! Nicely done!

 

[VidThreeNorth]

I set up and started with some interval stills (-5 stops) of the early part with the ideal of making a video (in Toronto we did not get "totality"). While the sun was being uncovered, I went with 4K video, but that was limited to -2 stops, which pretty much leaves no detail (either black or white). Even if I don't have much to show for it, it was my first try, so I felt I had fun, and it was interesting, so I'm happy enough. . . .

[added following 2024-04-09 15:06]
I resized 3 stills that i'll attach "here". I'm still checking the video clips, but essentially, the quality is like these. Because of the adapted lens, I was limited to manual focus. I checked the focus occasionally, as well ans need it to re-point the camera, so some pictures are better than others, and the same for the videos.

 

[snowbear]

Nice shot. We didn't have total coverage either. Learned that a cellphone inside a welding helmet produces a green blob, so no pictures for me either.

You need the grey welders glass.

We used to just punch a hole in a piece of paper and look at the spot thet shone through. I was working so I didn't go outside. Here's to 2044 or 2045 (I can't remember which)

 

[Bill in Texas]

Very nice image.

 

[smoke665]

You need the grey welders glass.

We used to just punch a hole in a piece of paper and look at the spot thet shone through. I was working so I didn't go outside. Here's to 2044 or 2045 (I can't remember which)

I have a big window helmet, I could see the sun fine with it, but when I tried using my cell phone against the glass I don't know if it wouldn't focus or it was flaring. I used the pinhole method with two paper plates, wasn't as good as the helmet. My DIL used a colander with good success supposedly.

 

[zombiesniper]

Great image.

 

[VidThreeNorth]

I don't think I mentioned before, but my video editing setup was damaged some months ago by a power spike (most likely due to a nearby work crew). I was unable to work on the eclipse files, so I posted the best 3-4 min clip for now. It is unlikely I will be able to do more than this in the near future:

"2024-04-08 Solar Eclipse Toronto Max Annular"
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[VidThreeNorth]

I don't think I mentioned before, but my video editing setup was damaged some months ago by a power spike (most likely due to a nearby work crew). I was unable to work on the eclipse files, so I posted the best 3-4 min clip for now. It is unlikely I will be able to do more than this in the near future:

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Looking back on this, the first thing I can say is that I recall having the camera setting to "slog2". Thinking about it now, I should have been set to "slog3" which is my lowest contrast setting. Beyond that, the Sun looks small. I thought I had the 50-200mm lens zoomed out to 200mm. I might have changed my mind at the last minute, but I don't remember making that choice. Odd.