April 8, 2024 Total Solar Eclipse

[Derphound01]

My view from Roanoke, VA.

 

[theterminator93]

A little blurry (thanks, me forgetting to lock the mirror on the mirrored camera), but not too shabby through a thin cirrus layer. Good enough for me to work with, combined with the ~1500 frames of time lapse.

 

[1997ThunderbirdLXV6]

Richmond, VA

 

[Kidd-7]

 

[Wile E. Coyote]

I had a great view of it in NJ

 

[Kidd-7]

that's some real totality

 

[Boston-Bull]

Took a screenshot of the skyline of Dallas at 13:41 hrs.

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[decipha]

Eclipse totally missed us here in New Orleans.

 

[Grog6]

If you've never seen one, it's worth a drive.
I'm glad you guys were able to see something; I got nada. John got a much better view 30 miles to my east.
I tried a pinhole camera, which can work to a certain extent in clouds, but Nothing. No sun at all, before or after. Even my viking stone couldn't find the sun, lol. (a calcite crystal was used for navigation).

 

[theterminator93]

Couple quickies as I process them... processed images later on!

 

[1997ThunderbirdLXV6]

Don't forget group pics of all the cars that showed up!

 

[Vicinity]

Nice! Any idea what the pink is on the first pic?

 

[theterminator93]

Solar flares.

 

[Zep5.0]

They call them some sort of beads too.

 

[Vicinity]

Thats kind of spooky, not gonna lie. Great shot

Gosh, that, and how much it looks like an eye. The sun gives us vision (and light) but you can't look at it!

 

[theterminator93]

Baily's Beads?

That's this:

 

[Irv]

Kingsbridge Park, City of Niagara Falls, Ontario. Cloudy and overcast all afternoon with tiny peeks through the clouds minutes before totality, then just long enough of a cloud break in the last minute of totality.



I got off seven 1-stop auto-bracketed shots and my cousin got a time-lapse video, a live video, and presumably a cleaner 360° panning video than the one I hastily took with my phone.

I was about a mile from Horseshoe Falls, but you didn't want to be there anyway with the crowd and the fact that there was no way to get a wide-angle shot of the sun and the falls together because the eclipse was opposite the waterfall and above the casino.

I've now seen 99% totality (2017), partial during an annular (2023), and cloudy totality. Eclipse tourism is something I'm considering in the future. Next time, I need to get my phone properly set up to be in the act.

Anyway, even though it's far from clean, I got my achievement award photo. I like the cloud cover adding some intrigue to the photo, but otherwise, 25-50% cloud cover would have been a lot more forgiving to work with than the 95-99% which caused this to be rushed. Of course, the clouds broke up significantly more 2-3 minutes after totality and the weather in general got much nicer starting half an hour later.

 

[theterminator93]

I'm working on post-processing now, starting with the timelapse images.

As I was going through them, this one caught my eye...

 

[theterminator93]

Processed the pics today. Enjoy.










Despite the low contrast and diffraction caused by the high cirrus layer, overall I'm pleased with the results.

This is the mosaic that I'll upload for printing. I'm not sure if I should adjust the color of each snapshot to make them more closely match; the sun was occasionally behind high clouds with varying levels of transparency, which had an effect on the exposure. Thoughts?

 

[Kidd-7]

I like the color variations.

 

[1997ThunderbirdLXV6]

Thank you for sharing. Looks beautiful!

 

[Vicinity]

Great! Number two is my favorite there