Totality over Nebraska (Brent Newton)

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Totality over Nebraska

The in-ideal view of the 2017 Eclipse over SE NE. The morning of the eclipse was marked by thick low clouds, the kind that burn off like morning fog. They were replaced by a cover of high-altitude, thin clouds which persisted through most of the day. We missed both C1 and C4 due to these conditions, but were able to observe about 75% of the eclipse in the middle.

Totality approached, and at C2 +5" a bank of fast-moving clouds appeared overhead, obscuring the eclipse until C3 +3', which was heavily disappointing. Fortunately my automated camera captured a half-dozen images of the Brighter parts of the eclipse, though due to the clouds even the Prominences were somehow underexposed. Unfortunately this was the best I got, and while my equipment worked flawlessly, the conditions were not so favorable.

- The Progression shots in this photo were taking using a filtered C8 atop a CG5. Most shots were at ISO 400 and exposures ranged between 1/1000 - 1/500 due to thing clouds. These were batch-processed in Photoshop using a custom action set I made, which re-colored them yellow, sharpened them, and re-applied an unsharpened edge to each image.

- The Totality shots only used 3 photos, 2 of which were at 1/25" and one at 1.3" Due to clouds these were the only 3 decent images I have. The C8 also captured some data of the Diamond Ring and even Bailey's Beads, but the sun is out of focus and halfway out of the frame as clouds did not give me an opportunity to center and focus the object before C2. I stacked the 3 I could use and processed them as best as I could, admittedly with a higher amount of stretching than normal.

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