• ArtieShaw@fedia.io
    10·
    7 months ago

    It’s lovely. We watched from our backyard. And I know my strength is not photography, so thanks for this.

    It’s hard to describe “it looks like non-directional sunset but there’s a deeply uncool eye in the sky.”

  • MxM111@kbin.social
    7·
    7 months ago

    You can even see the red perturbation at lower left. Nice. How did you take the picture?

    • LostXOR@fedia.ioOP
      4·
      7 months ago

      I had a Canon T5i with a 600mm telephoto lens on a tracking mount, and used Magic Lantern (a firmware addon) to automatically take bracketed exposures at intervals of a few seconds. It let me actually enjoy the eclipse instead of trying to take photos during it. I actually got a much better photo of the solar prominences at my lowest exposure, though they are still overexposed somewhat. (Who knew they’re that bright?) Photo

      • Kichae@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        7 months ago

        It’s a solar prominence. One of the big loopy bois on the Sun’s surface.

    • Wogi@lemmy.world
      6·
      7 months ago

      I have a few very similar photos. I was in Cape Girardeau Illinois.

      To give you an idea of how crowded it was, the hour long drive down there took us two hours not including half an hour to stop and use the bathroom. 29 minutes of which was standing in line to use the bathroom.

      The drive back took 3 hours. We detoured up to Columbia instead of going in to St Louis before heading home. My friends went straight to St Louis.

      It took them closer to 5 hours.

      • Justifier@lemmy.world
        2·
        7 months ago

        Lol

        Cape Girardeau, Missouri.

        Did you go to one of the big parks? Any areas around the main 5-6 city parks was a shitshow, I drove by them after the eclipse to charge and noped out of there real fast

        Most of the locals went to community parks like Kiwanis, Twin Trees park, or the Trail of Tears

        • Wogi@lemmy.world
          2·
          7 months ago

          I went to a truck stop before I even got to the city. There was a big grassy hill behind a gas station and maybe 500 people hanging out in the area.

    • LostXOR@fedia.ioOP
      2·
      7 months ago

      I was in a random park in Jonesboro, Texas. Only one other group of people was there, probably because it’s such a small town. I was staying in Belton and had to drive about an hour to get there (Belton was predicted to be cloudy) but I got up early enough that there was virtually no traffic.