Did not get the Seestar running. Three scopes, 2 EA, 1 optical, was more than I could handle with the crowds, even with the help of other club members!
Nice pictures. Hope you can make a little video for the family movie night. My wife and I enjoyed the event in Fort Worth. The Beginning Partial was in and out of clouds, but the weather was clear for Totality and the Ending Partial.
Hello, my name is Tony. I’m new to the Club. I took these today with a Nikon D7000 at 200mm with a $16 solar filter (20 f-stops). I think I am happier about seeing the sunspots than the eclipse.
We ended up in Oden, Arkansas. The eclipse was spectacular. Here are some raw, unprocessed video frames. Hope to have video, gif animation, and better stills over next week or so. Equipment: Orion ST-80, ZWO ASI 482MC.
I got home last night at about 2:30 am, and my spot in Missouri turned out to be perfect. Not a cloud at all, I got very good data sets from 3 cameras, I failed with the GoPro and failed to get a landscape because I tried using an old camera that was junk.
My first thought… it was WAY bigger in the sky than I anticipated. I know the size of the moon and sun, and this was maybe 50% bigger, it was stunning, like a flaming silver dollar coin in the sky. The huge magenta/red prominences were easily visible. There was a huge one on the bottom and another to the left.
I’ll try and process as fast as I can, but it’s not a race.
I was next to an employee of NASA, he works on the Artemis program and he said this was WAY more impressive than the 2017 eclipse. Here is a link to his website, Shawn was super cool to hang with and shoot the eclipse. He said he’d love to come to Okie-Tex and talk about Artemis or Eclipse or whatever. Here is a link to his website:
Plainview, AR hyperlapse. 4m 19s totality. Absolutely no problems with clouds, traffic or other people. The flash at 3 seconds is fireworks. We heard crickets start up during totality. You can add those sound effects yourself.
I just set the drones in the air and hit record. I was not interested in taking photos myself. Just look at Andy’s instead ; it looked just like that.
Was in McKinney Texas at relatives house. Had some clouds with breaks. Fortunately there were clear areas or just thin clouds for the 3 min, 27sec of totality. It was awesome . Saw Venus and Jupiter with naked eye. Tried to capture diamond ring and Bailey’s beads.
Orion ST120 refractor with 20mm EP and iPhone 13 ProMax.
I agree with Shawn Quinn’s assessment. This eclipse was more impressive that the 2017 eclipse. By my memory, the corona was much larger and brighter this time, and there were more prominent prominences around the limb. The overall eyeball view was absolutely stunning.
Your quickie test images look really good. Can’t wait for the finished products.
I’m sharing all the data from my ASI2600MC camera, shot with the club’s 65mm scope, so I belive it belongs to all of us. I’m buried in data! So, please everyone dive into this data and edit to your heart’s contentment. The Google drive link should be open and publicly accessible. Please let me know if you have trouble accessing it.