Solar Eclipse Sunday evening

[STexan]

I was shooting to hit the max coverage at around 2 degrees above the horizon, which puts it around the morton, portales area .... now, intellicast says cloud coverage in that region is going to peak out right in that time frame around 40%. Looks like some sort of wave is going to be passing through then. I really didn't want to move further west with a sun 45 minutes or more higher in the sky as I'm in it more for the practical photography aspect, than the experience. Guess I'll look at the forecast in the morning. If cloud coverage forecast holds, I may have to move further west, but all of the key landmarks (pueblo ruins, churches, etc) will be full of Albuquerque and Santa Fe photographers and I really don't want to deal with those crowds. (Will be worse than a weekend high risk PDS tornado day, all concentrated inside a 2 hour window) May have to settle for a remote windmill/tank and/or barn with a mountain in the foreground if I can find something I'm happy with.

And the slight risk day that I blew off to maybe go after this eclipse has yielded a pretty fair number of tornado reports so i'm a little bummed sitting here in W TX looking at all the red dots while in an endeavor to MAYBE capture some sort of decent eclipse shot. Hope it's worth it.

 

[Zach Young]

And the slight risk day that I blew off to maybe go after this eclipse has yielded a pretty fair number of tornado reports so i'm a little bummed sitting here in W TX looking at all the red dots while in an endeavor to MAYBE capture some sort of decent eclipse shot. Hope it's worth it.

Meh. Tornadoes happen a lot, eclipses do not.

 

[Chip Redmond]

Just took a few practice shots with my various filters. #10 welders glass looked pretty good when the sun was fairly high, say 15 degrees. By the time the sun was right on the horizon I had the filter off, although I was at about F25 and 1/4000th of a second ISO 100 for good contrast.

Its times like this when the lack of an infinity setting on Canon lenses is pretty annoying...

I got a welders glass #11 yesterday and played around with my 300mm. Using the same settings as above I was able to get a shot of the sun pretty well without using a tripod even. I just focused on one of the farthest points I could see on the horizon first and keeping that focus it should work with focusing on the sun. Zooming in you can even see the sunspots that are currently located on the earth facing side. It was really cool! I have never been able to get a shot like that and am very stoked about tonight!

Chip

 

[cstrunk]

I got to see about 20% here before clouds in the west covered the sun. Bummer.

But I learned that there will be a total solar eclipse near my parents on August 21st, 2017! I would love to see that.

 

[Terrence Cook]

Great skies this evening in C KS.

From Lyons:

 

[Rick Schmidt]

Here is my view of the eclipse just NW of Topeka at 8:20.---Rick





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[David Drummond]

From the eclipse centerline on the TX/NM border.

 

[Marcus Diaz]

Here's the eclipse from Hereford, TX

 

[Derek Weston]

From a rooftop with a telephoto

 

[Greg Campbell]

Superb, David!

From S. Az, we only saw a lopsided 81%. These were taken about 20 minutes after maximum.

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[MClarkson]

I'll start off with this one... its 2am and I've driven 750 miles today from Tucson to the Grand Canyon and back. I'll play with more edits tomorrow...

Sunset over the rim of the Grand Canyon:

 

[STexan]

Glad a few of you got to see a max eclipse at sunset at the NM/TX border. I was a bit concerned with cloud cover there but that seemed like to be the optimal location. So, I proceeded to some ancient Indian ruins at Gran Quivira S of Mountainair, NM which was good but too far west IMO, and the bulk of the eclipse was a little too high and bright, plus the crowds did not allow for a broader ruins silhouette. Most of my images had too much lens flare but I can clean up several once I get home that might turn out ok.



I'm going to hang out here in Clovis a while and see what might develop this afternoon before heading back to Dallas.

 

[Jim Bailey]

Here was the view from NW Arkansas. The thicker clouds cleared just in time and the thinner clouds on the horizon acted as a ND/color enhancing filter.

 

[MClarkson]

A shot with my homemade filter. Sunspots!

 

[Lee Smith-Whaley]

Here are a few of mine taken in Warrensburg, MO. I got home just in time to grab my tripod and set up for this along my neighbors fence line. Sometimes I love living on the edge of town.