Eclipse photo

[Jim McDonald]

Didn't have time to do much metering, just pray the exposure was close enough. 

Minor solar flares from about 75 to 180 degrees. This was just as totality was ending.

[preprius]

Yea, you got to experience it.  No clouds.  Very nice. 

Is the green light from a reflection in the equipment?

In California I had a partial eclipse. 

My pic has solar filter on a telescope. So orange ball is what the filter allows to pass. 

Manually holding cell phone to a telescope lens is hard. So the cell phone was not perfectly focused.  There is  side by side pair of sun spots almost in center.

 

 

Edited April 8, 2024 by preprius

[Sycamore67]

Jim MacDonald.... Really excellent picture!!!

[Jim McDonald]

3 hours ago, preprius said:

Yea, you got to experience it.  No clouds.  Very nice. 

Is the green light from a reflection in the equipment?

In California I had a partial eclipse. 

My pic has solar filter on a telescope. So orange ball is what the filter allows to pass. 

Manually holding cell phone to a telescope lens is hard. So the cell phone was not perfectly focused.  There is  side by side pair of sun spots almost in center.

 

 

The green flare only showed up on one camera/lens combo so I am assuming it is something equipment related.

[barb.j.enders]

Great pictures.  We were cloudy here so it wasn't really visible.

[TAIrving]

We were in the 96% zone, had hopes for a good show.  At the time of the eclipse, we had a thunderstorm and were under a tornado watch.  Disappointment!  

[Bill WIlson]

We were at 97+% totality here.  We had a pretty good view.  Clouds thinned just enough and just in time to see the whole thing.  Interstate 79 runs North to south and is just a few miles west of here, very close and leading to the zone of totality.  The local news showed chopper footage of bumper to bumper traffic for miles outside of Pittsburgh, heading north.  My oldest daughter and her family intended to head that way, but turned around when they saw how much traffic was on the interstate.