Total Eclipse Images

[Whirlwind]

Here are my humble attempts at my first total solar eclipse on 21st August 2017. 

Images were taken using a Canon 650D using a sigma 135-400mm lens (at 300mm) on a Star Adventurer Mini (SAM) tracking mount. Stupidly after taking night sky images at crater lake I left the camera using ISO800 so any inner corona detail has been lost (but the outer details have been captured).  This probably wasn't helped by the high cloud that moved in about an hour before the eclipse. The mounting was a bit light for the lens (particularly the tripod and the ball head, rather than the SAM).    The observing location was the John Day Fossil Beds in Oregon.  It was busy but not the madness that was seen at Madras. 

Still it was an amazing spectacle and well worth the effort.

The first image is a combined image of the corona from 3 separate images of different exposures and the second is a more artistic shot of the diamond ring.

Thanks

 

[Craney]

Great images Whirlwind.

 

[Pete Presland]

Nicely done, an interesting processing technique for the diamond ring image.