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2024 Eclipse - Prominences [OC] (live.staticflickr.com)

submitted 6 months ago by lefty7283@lemmy.world to c/pics@lemmy.world

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[-] lefty7283@lemmy.world 18 points 6 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

[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 points 6 months ago

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

[-] lefty7283@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

This is already the highest res (at least in terms of being zoomed in), but here's the entire uncropped photo

[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 points 6 months ago

Thanks!

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 points 6 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.

[-] seven_phone@lemmy.world 2 points 6 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.

[-] Maruki_Hurakami@lemm.ee 10 points 6 months ago

This might be the coolest picture of the eclipse I've seen!

[-] lefty7283@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

thanks!

[-] athos77@kbin.social 8 points 6 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.

[-] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

It is only available for US accounts.

[-] athos77@kbin.social 2 points 6 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.