Eclipse

[Matt Packer]

Afternoon All. I hope you all enjoyed the eclipse yesterday. Just wanted to share a bit of my footage. 

This is from my roof(!) looking across towards Farthing Downs on which there seemed to be an incredible number of cars parked watching the eclipse too.

Sadly I had a few technical issues so I only managed to get up to just past the main point of eclipse before my imaging came to a halt. You can see things getting a bit shaky towards the end of the clip. We also had some clouds - the only ones in the sky it seemed - come over during it which you can also see. And also managed to capture a plane much to my excitement.

Equipment:
Askar103APO
Skywatcher Wave100i
PlayerOne Uranus-C
Baader Herschel Wedge
ND3.0 + solar continuum filters
Sharpcap

Composite Video: https://youtube.com/shorts/yihctlAKno4?is=CVs_b_scMX5dboXk

[drja...@aol.com]



Great image Matt with the sunspot detail, and plane with engine exhausts.

Mine are here.  The start at approx 18:18, visible in the image where the only a small crescent of the sun surface spicules has been eclipsed.  Max eclipse, give or take a minute or so at 19:16.  A memorable moment it getting so noticeably dark.   My vantage point was too low to get the end of the eclipse.

Lunt 60 Ha, with 50 TIF stills stacked in Autostakkert 4.  I also took 500 frame SER videos as well, but at a low frame rate using the ASI 178 mono.  These did not stack as well as the TIFs, showing up more blurred

I'm not sure my surface orientations are accurate. I set up using the sunspot positions on a SOHO image of the Sun on 12 August but probably I was somewhat out by the maximum.  I have stuck with the original mono.

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[Kevin Phillips]

Beautifully done.

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[Alistair Cunningham]

The video is better than the one on the BBC's website from Greenwich! Good job.

Alistair Cunningham

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