Friday, August 25, 2017

Eclipse 2017

I haven't checked in here in a long time, but had to share my eclipse experience. I went to Waterloo, Illinois and stayed with an old family friend in the path of totality. Weather was really dicey but fortunately cleared before the eclipse stated and stayed clear until about 40 minutes after totality and had thunderstorms by the end. I can live with that since those very important 2 minutes were clear.

I had multiple cameras setup to capture the eclipse. Two of them got decent results, the third is still being analyzed but I think I got eclipse stupid so everything I was trying to do probably didn't come out quite right. Still, the most important camera, the one doing closeups of the Sun, worked well (not quite flawlessly...timing was a bit off for some reason I never figured out but it got most of the pictures I wanted). So here are a bunch of pics from the eclipse. They have different exposure times and processing to bring out different features. Some short exposures so the inner corona and longer exposures show the outer corona.





























As added fun, I was followed around by a film crew from Google for a documentary they are producing on the Eclipse Meagmovie Project (I was photographing for it). I hope to see the finished product soon!


2 comments:

  1. As I was scrolling down, I kept saying, "this is my favorite, this is my favorite," over and over. The words stunning and gorgeous don't do them justice! Thanks for sharing your skills with us. Please let us know when, where, and how to see your part of the movie. We are your proud family. Thanks!

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  2. p.s. we had about the opposite of your experience in Racine. It was cloudy in the morning, the sky broke for a couple of seconds here and there before totality, and right when the show should have been the best... it was completely obscured. Shortly afterward I was able to see a nice crescent. Although not that remarkable, it still was fun to be out and make the attempt. I also played with making a couple different pinhole projectors. Would have loved to have been with you.

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