ECLIPSE Asignation

[Tin Can]

Use

Reporting

5 rules

Where
What
When
Why
?

[domaz]

There are probably no actual journalists now, just "AI" along with an intern who doesn't know good text from bad text.

[Duolab123]

Going to be cloudy

[Tin Can]

Cloud cover was 100% last one

Cars zooming all over 100 mile radius

It was VERY CLOUDY

Then the SUN beamed

on my patch!

[Tin Can]

I will carry a strong tall tripod with birding gimbal and

NIKON P1000 a very good do it all camera

see u on the playground

https://www.nikonusa.com/en/nikon-products/product/compact-digital-cameras/coolpix-p1000.html

[ic-racer]

I'm preparing to do movies of the event:

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[Conrad . Marvin]

Going to be cloudy

Me too pessimistic.

[Tin Can]

Stay in bed

Sky is falling

[Tin Can]

Testing Eclpse Googles

Read it

Show and tell

https://youtu.be/jQR115jlyOc?si=BB2tQJlVoe8XMRco

[Tin Can]

Free advice Nic Carver

Tonight (3/26): Solar Eclipse Preperations on Zoom
3 hours ago

The third Nebula Photos themed chat will take place tonight: Tuesday, March 26th at 23:00 UTC (7pm ET, 4pm PT, 11pm UK) and the topic will be 'Preparing for a Total Solar Eclipse.' After a short presentation by me, it will be open discussion and Q&A, but only on the topic of Solar Eclipse preparations and imaging. This chat will be recorded and posted on Patreon.

Zoom Link:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83967494178?pwd=0JOQVeCf1fGbxTW0ZD8ZtKaxWXujyZ.1

Cheers, Nico

[Corran]

I have to work :(

Wasn't planning on that, but unfortunately lots of changes and increases in duties here lately have made it impossible for me to travel. However, we are still hitting like 80% coverage. I have carved out a few hours in the afternoon to setup and shoot, with my wife assisting as I have to be working at maximum coverage. I plan on setting up 2 or 3 cameras - one digital shooting timed exposures, one 4x5 camera with 20x ND filter (I calculated the exposure based on sunny-16 and the time needed based on correction factors), and one other film camera of some type doing the same or similar.

Now, I hope for the rain currently predicted to move to one day later or else nothing will be seen/shot.

Oh well, there's always 2044.

[jnantz]

I'm preparing to do movies of the event:

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YES!
IC thanks, you made my day :)
I was just looking over my H8 films and wishing I still had my camera LOL
and BOOM there you are :)
looking forward to hearing how it went :)
John

[Hugo Zhang]

I don't have special sunglasses to watch. Is it safe to watch it on my 16x20 camera ground glass with some filters? Red or ND?

[Mark J]

I watched the 1999 one in Schwarzwald, Germany.
It was a poor day, and half an hour before totality, it was raining.
It seemed dim and cloudy still, as the time approached, but actually the cloud was thinning but the sun was getting dimmer.
About 2 minutes out, we realised that the sky had cleared, and started jumping around in excitement.
In the end it was a perfect view, and I got several shots on a 350mm lens, just wished I'd taken a 500.

Wishing you similar luck.

[OKAROB]

500mm Nikkor Reflex+ Nikon 2X teleconverter 800ASA 1/80 sec f16
Hardest part is tracking the sun. The sun is moving across a 35mm frame unbelievably fast with a 35mm frame. If you can, practice taking pictures and tracking the sun.
Don't forget to stop and simply watch the eclipse! It is magnificent!

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[Jim Jones]

In addition to the big gear, using almost any camera that can capture multiple images on one frame of film supplements the usual eclipse photos as in this shot of a lunar eclipse decades ago.
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[John Layton]

Jim, I've never photographed an eclipse in the manner that you have above, but am thinking I'd like to try this. So...I have two questions, first one being: what film, filter, aperture/exposure time? (oops, that's three questions!). And two: time interval between each snap of the shutter? Thanks!

(yeah I know...I can probably figure this stuff out - but then I'd have only myself to blame if I mess up - and what's the fun in that? :rolleyes:)

[Tin Can]

I am not going beyond my 1/2 acre

Same as 7 years ago

I may take pics of people

or not

[Tin Can]

oops

family of 3 incoming

the traffic scares me

[Vaughn]

In addition to the big gear, using almost any camera that can capture multiple images on one frame of film supplements the usual eclipse photos as in this shot of a lunar eclipse decades ago.
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Nice, Jim. I prefer lunar eclipses -- much quieter, no one else around, the rush of seeing the moon completely hidden and have all the stars and metorites jump out from the night. On 8x10 I photographed the entire thing, one exposure every ten minutes from about 1am to 5am. Alas, I did not compensate for the reduction of light from the moon as the eclipse progressed, and the middle several images did not have the moon showing up at all. Still a great night and lesson learned!

Then there was the time using just the back element of a TR (a bit over 710mm) on 5x7 and the shutter, being exposed to the air, froze up on me...

(image made just outside Yosemite on the way home years ago - contact print onto 3.5x5 postcard paper)

[ic-racer]

YES!
IC thanks, you made my day :)
I was just looking over my H8 films and wishing I still had my camera LOL
and BOOM there you are :)
looking forward to hearing how it went :)
John

Waiting for the sun to do some dry runs. Finally got some sun today.
Practice is needed. Lots of little unexpected things.
For example the lens is 1000mm equivalent focal length. The Bolex reflex finder is already very dim, and with the solar filter, the sun is a dim disk. Any cloud cover and it totally disappears in the viewfinder.
Locating the sun with the lens is quite difficult with the filter in place.
I had to rig up a 'spotting scope' with the Ocatameter viewfinder on the side of the camera.
The sun moves very fast across the frame at that magnification, so constant little adjustments are needed.

I'm also planning on running a second camera with a wide angle lens running at 0.5 FPS for time lapse. Hope to have it set up behind the 'audience' so they are in the frame.


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[Fred L]

from what I understand from astronomers I know, once there is totality, filters aren't needed. But it's important to have eye protection until Baily's Beads are visible (at start and conclusion of totality). The Diamond Ring (if visible) will happen just before the beads.

My plan it to use a solar filter over my 400 lens (will set dslr to dx mode), remove it during totality (hopefully 3+ minutes), then reattach. Camera will be running on intervalometer so I can see it visually.

Fingers crossed we have clear skies.

[Tin Can]

My daughter a 7th grade teacher just loaded a bus full

Headed down state to view the ECLIPSE!

God Bless them ALL!

[Jim Jones]

Jim, I've never photographed an eclipse in the manner that you have above, but am thinking I'd like to try this. So...I have two questions, first one being: what film, filter, aperture/exposure time? (oops, that's three questions!). And two: time interval between each snap of the shutter? Thanks!

(yeah I know...I can probably figure this stuff out - but then I'd have only myself to blame if I mess up - and what's the fun in that? :rolleyes:)

If we drastically round off figures so the moon has a diameter of 2,000 miles, it's orbit's diameter is 480,000 miles, and the value of pi is 3, then in one day the moon appears to travel 720 times it's own diameter through the sky and 30 times it's diameter in one hour. Clicking the shutter every two minutes spaced the moon images close together on sheet film in a press camera. Since the moon's surface is much darker than Earth's, the aperture and shutter were set for two or three stops more exposure than for sunny snapshots on Earth. The film was whatever I normally use for scenic shots. No filter. This eclipse was many years ago, and I didn't record all the details.

[jnantz]

Waiting for the sun to do some dry runs. Finally got some sun today.
Practice is needed. Lots of little unexpected things.
For example the lens is 1000mm equivalent focal length. The Bolex reflex finder is already very dim, and with the solar filter, the sun is a dim disk. Any cloud cover and it totally disappears in the viewfinder.
Locating the sun with the lens is quite difficult with the filter in place.
I had to rig up a 'spotting scope' with the Ocatameter viewfinder on the side of the camera.
The sun moves very fast across the frame at that magnification, so constant little adjustments are needed.

I'm also planning on running a second camera with a wide angle lens running at 0.5 FPS for time lapse. Hope to have it set up behind the 'audience' so they are in the frame.


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mind blowing stuff, blazing what looks like the switars !

[John Layton]

Jeesh I've got family coming up from NYC (Hastings), Providence, and Boston, and need to feed them all (don't get me wrong will be fun!), and some are heading up to Burlington where it will be an absolute, total zoo...especially seeing as how Vermont is getting it backwards, weather-statistics wise...by giving us a clear and sunny day for the eclipse - whereas other parts of the U.S....those which were supposed to be clear and sunny, will be under clouds. What this means is that not only will our population increase by possibly 200,000 (30%!), but these "extra" folks, plus lots of the rest of us, will all be cramming themselves in that all-powerful, sacred strip of totality....aaaahhhhh!!!

For my wife and myself...well, we're already in a location which offers 99.9% of totality - but from what I've heard from "the experts," this still will not cut the mustard...so north we will (also) travel!

As for optics and/or photos...well, I've got this old, funky "Sun" zoom which was given to me...a 190 - 430mm (and I've got a doubler buried someplace also), and am thinking I'll rig this with a focussing screen, slap on a filter...and enjoy the show!

[Mark J]

Good luck John, but yes, full totality is the business. When the light goes out like a dimmer switch and the corona comes up pink around the moon, that's when you realise it was worth it and you are having a major life experience.

ps. anyone who is going to be taking pictures of totality, please take the filter off at that stage, if it hasn't already been said.

[Fred L]

I'll be using a solar filter on the hood of my telephoto (it will come off quickly during totality, then back on when the moon moves off). A friend tried out a 16 stop ND on it looks fine, guessing the sensor was ok. gonna be a pain to unscrew without bumping the framing. I'll also be running the camera's intervalometer if clouds don't roll in haha

wish I had a Lunt and a camera adapter.

[Tin Can]

it is crazy here

Many phone calls I stopped answering

and then they drive off for a better dream

[Tin Can]

Southern Illinois University

Is a giant campus, with a good chance

For open sky

The giant campus will be open 24/7

Which means toilets and parking

[Fred L]

this is a great resource for those looking for info (I know it's kinda late, but still...)

https://eclipse2024.org/path-north-america.html

and toilets are a good thing :)e where I'll b going will have food trucks and washrooms.

[Michael R]

Well, apparently all the hotels here and all the ski resorts in the eastern townships are full. Jay Peak just south of the border says this is making their season. Crazy.

[Tin Can]

Careful home

Bless us all

[Tin Can]

2 relatives found camping in the night

on my front lawn

without

warning

I am in a perfect location from my porch

they are sleeping in heavy dew

[Michael R]

It’s supposed to be clear sky all day here so I guess people will get their money’s worth.

[Mark J]

Are the Eclipse team all stunned into silence ?

[Tin Can]

It was magnificent

Stunning

Extra campers still here


Are the Eclipse team all stunned into silence ?

[Mark J]

Excellent - so glad it worked out for you !

[Fred L]

Saw it from Cornwall, Ont. Conflicting forecasts had it as cloudy or partly sunny. Regardless, it was stunning and the roar and hush when totality arrived was something else.

[Daniel Unkefer]

My Wife and I just got back from Kingwood Gardens in Mansfield. I am blown away by the emotional experience of it; there really is something to that!

My Wife took her Canon D80 with Sigma 100-400mm at 400mm, she clicked off fifteen or so during totality, I took over and moved slightly, took another fifteen or so then BAM it was over.

I took my 4x5 Sinar Norma Handy with 65mm f8 Super Angulon and six 4x5 Graphmatics, loaded with HP5+ and TMX400. I got several close (four feet away) full body photos of a beautiful Blue Peacock that we kept running into. Quite a noisy squawker and so beautiful in the excellent lighting. Hope to post some soon. So beautiful and sparkling when posing with plume fully extended. Handy Indeed!

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53641173131_e19b091d26_o.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2pJ62WB)Eclipse 4 08 24 (https://flic.kr/p/2pJ62WB) by Nokton48 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/18134483@N04/), on Flickr

Those are called prominences at 3:30 an 6:30, including the loop from a Plasma flare.


https://kingwoodcenter.org/

[ic-racer]

Wow, that was fantastic. They should have that every spring.

[Michael R]

Are the Eclipse team all stunned into silence ?

Meh. Nothing particularly captivating from my perspective. Just basic mechanics.

[Drew Wiley]

I was out washing the car and didn't even notice. Only a small bite out of the sun here on the West Coast this time around. The most I've ever personally seen was around 80% - critters and shadows did begin acting strange; roosters crowed when it started getting sunnier again.

[ic-racer]

I took my eye away from the viewfinder (where the eclipse was filling the frame) and, even though the sun looked tiny, the view was magnificent, Very eerie. I can't imagine not wanting to see it in person.
The dynamic range of the transition to total is too much for film, you have to experience it yourself. Unless one is happy seeing it as a photoshopped, multilayered digital concoction on the computer screen.
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[Tin Can]

I am NOT posting any Eclipse photos

We shot enough!

Shot through the paper 1000 power lenses and old DSLR

and never needed to get more than 20 ft off porch

No traffic on my space or road

No rain

Thin high clouds

ENHANCED the shots!!!

PTL

[Ron McElroy]

This eclipse was the first time I experienced totality. A wonderful thing to set and experience.

Getting there and especially coming back home was not fun. The last 16 miles from Marion, Arkansas to home took 2 hours with the majority of that getting across the Mississippi river.

[Daniel Unkefer]

We were there early (9:30 AM) at Kingwood Gardens in Mansfield. When totality elapsed, we bolted to the car, we parked right up front. Traffic was not bad coming back since we were one of first to leave.

[Conrad . Marvin]

I was at 87% with almost clear conditions and able to watch the goings on around me. A friend in Rochester told me that George Eastman’s alleged assessment that Rochester was the greatest natural outdoor darkroom (cloud cover) came true.

[Corran]

Despite forecasts of rain and heavy cloud cover, the day turned out to be 90% clear, with some wispy clouds passing occasionally.

I shot one sheet of 4x5, a 3-hour exposure with 20x ND filter, with 47mm XL. I also shot a sheet of 8x10 with completely unknown Efke IR film with a 700nm filter. No guesses on whether that'll come out.

I then shot my Nikon D800, at 14mm, at 1-minute intervals. I messed up and didn't have a filter but I ripped one of my solar glasses filters out and taped it to the rear element. Worked pretty well from what I can tell. Will stack that image up while my film is drying when I develop tonight. Looking forward to it...hope I got something worthwhile.

[Mark Sampson]

My idea was to show what an ordinary subject (my backyard) looked like under the 83% eclipse seen here in Tucson.
Of course there were high thin clouds to diffuse the effect- a loss of about 2-1/2 stops worth of light.
We shall see when I develop the film!

[Corran]

Film is drying. I'm unhappy with my work. For various reasons. A real miss from me on the film front I think.

I edited my digital photo, and least my first pass:

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyBQJfY8qaUL-4JRCwbfeznU1hzCyW7Wpkkltss88cUNmjrKcnvSFpRFlEmAMwk2vX4IsoGeC9oLbC9Dwy3HxvqyOeyUIig7aarKKn0cOchdCmsCQmIUpUg6Sc3sttPRHzz89f1ztBUEA8ryY9qubT4hkxfNDINZV5jHp9k6D7_8To5scq7U0CKfaJS2o/s1100/price-eclipse-01bws.jpg

I saw this pic on Instagram, I think it's one of the best eclipse photos I've seen by far:
https://www.instagram.com/p/C5haH_yxc3f/

Obviously I'm a sucker for foreground.

[jp]

I did a timelapse.. (in the link) 500 raw photos with my D810 with the intervalometer set for 10s... Used LR to batch bring up the shadows a little and apply lens correction, and export the Jpegs. Photoshop made the video from the Jpegs. I used Premier elements to fade in and put a title slide in.

I went out to photograph it because it was a nice day and was convenient. I didn't travel far. I went down to Marshall Point light house (forest gump fame) but the lawn was wrecked from a recent storm and people were starting to gather to enjoy the event. Then went to the location I picked out first, a working dock about 1/2 mile away because I thought boats would be nice in the foreground. Brought a photographer friend along, but also chatted with customers at the dock during the event.

https://www.facebook.com/jp498/videos/1466822577577234

Used the rugged Ries A series tripod Will W sold me for for my 8x10 and larger cameras and left the camera on it for an hour or so.

While using my Rolleiflex and L-208 light meter to take other photos while passing time, I noticed about 4 1/4 stops of light reduction from the eclipse; we are about two hours from the totality by driving... We don't measure driving distances by miles here, just time. My solar panel inverter in Rockland recorded a similar reduction in light; about 95%. It got cool, and the sun/air cast a shimmering dancing shadow on the pavement that was unphotographable.

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[Tin Can]

I most liked the 360 degree Sunset and Sunrise

Very strange

&

eerie

[Daniel Unkefer]

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53654138140_b47a0fb4ed_o.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2pKetZf)Kingwood Eclipse Peacock Strut (https://flic.kr/p/2pKetZf) by Nokton48 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/18134483@N04/), on Flickr

My Wife took this one as we were waiting for totality of eclipse at Kingwood Gardens. He posed for us for quite a while, seemed to like our attention. A fun time :)

[John Layton]

Daniel I wonder if that peacock is a descendent of those at Kingwood I'd seen during my visits there with my grandparents back in the late 1950's/early 1960's? On my last visit there...1969 I think - so as a 14 year old (and shortly before my grandparents moved into a senior facility), I took a photo of one of those peacocks with 35mm Kodachrome, in full display as in your photo above...and enlarged this directly onto black and white paper, for a wonderful result, an image which then became a strong motivating force in my early pursuit of photography.

And oh my...the eclipse! As witness to totality here in Vermont on a basically clear day, along with a wonderful gathering of family (up from Boston, NY, and Providence)...I could not have asked for more!

[Daniel Unkefer]

Hi John, My guess would be these ARE direct descendants to those you've seen. I was told they have five on the estate, all males. They squawk so very loudly, they are trying to attract females. On our two previous trips here, they were behind fences, as they were doing MASSIVE construction. They even installed three new giant fountains, although they are not hooked up yet. What a fantastic wonderful place for photographic enjoyment!

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50857696271_7087a82d7e_o.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2ku7Zfg)Kingswood Gardens Hassy 30mm Distagon Fisheye 1 (https://flic.kr/p/2ku7Zfg) by Nokton48 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/18134483@N04/), on Flickr

Frog Pond, Kingswood Gardens, Mansfield Ohio. Kodak 70mm Surveillance Film, ADOX Borax MQ dev, Hasselblad 500C/M 30mm T* Distagon, Handheld exposure. Arista #2 8x10 Matte RC paper, Multigrade dev. Processed in 70mm Kindermann Dev Tank. Kodak Surveillance reminds me a lot of the older Tri-X emulsion. The sun was just out of the frame upper left corner. The circular garden works well with the Hassy Fishy lens. This was a fun shoot! :)

[John Layton]

yes...a perfect setup for both a fisheye lens and a square format! Nice!