Chasing Shadows in the USA - 2017

[Nighthawk237]

All

A few efforts from this year's chase:


Diamonds at Second Contact


Diamonds at Third Contact

Thank you for looking.

Paul

[Dave934]

Amazing !
Dave.

[Nighthawk237]

Thank you, much appreciated.

P.

[JezH]

Fab!... What lens did you use?

[JezH]

Fab!... what lens did you use?

[Nighthawk237]

Jez et al

Many thanks.

I used a 500mm prime with a 1.4x converter, giving me a focal length of 700mm (obviously).

This gave me an image where the solar/moon diameter covered about 25% of the frame (height-wise). I toyed with using a 2x but decided against it for a range of reasons.

There are so many different things to try to photograph. On this occasion I decided to not go for a very wide range of exposures to capture the corona. I was more interested in particular details at second & third contacts (start & end of totality), and capturing a sequence across the whole of the partial phases.

I would post the sequence montage, that I put together, here but even at its lowest definition it is still a large JPG (but can be seen via the FLICKR link for the individual images though).

Regards

Paul