Eclipse 2024

Progression of the April 8, 2024 Eclipse from Dallas, Texas. After a cloudy morning and not so good weather report (thunderstorms later), the skies cleared a bit for the show! If you are wondering why I did not take a totality image, well there are so many other people doing that, no need, haha 😃. In reality, I should have done a meridian flip a couple of minutes prior to totality like I PLANNED. However, it was tracking so well I did not want to mess with it and figured it would track for a bit longer. It was completely my fault - the AM3 worked perfectly. I highly recommend this mount as it is super compact and not much bigger than a star tracker. The mount and tripod easily fits in carry-on luggage.

I did not try to hurry up to flip the mount and recenter because honestly observing the eclipse is so much more of a reward and I did not want to miss it. Besides, there are many excellent images of totality already and one more will not be missed. If you have never witnessed a total solar eclipse from totality, it is worth doing.

Eclipse 2024
Date: 4-8-24
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i/600D modified
Telescope: Orion ST80
Barlow: None
Focal Length: 400mm
F/5
Focal Reducer: None,
Mount: ZWO AM3
Filter Adaptor: None
Filter(s): Astronomik OWB, SvBONY UV-IR
Focuser: None
Autoguiding: None
Exposure: white light 1/800s
ISO: 200
Offset 0
Temp: 24
Processing: PixInsight, Photoshop, BlurXT

https://www.instagram.com/astroquest1/
http://astroquest1.blogspot.com/
https://www.astrobin.com/users/kurtzepp/collections/
http://youtube.com/AstroQuest1