Contact! The 2017 Eclipse Begins (Matt Harbison)

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Contact! The 2017 Eclipse Begins

Image composite of four images from two telescopes on a GEM during the eclipse.

Telescope 1 - Hydrogen Alpha Lunt 80mm PST

This scope allows the user to see the photosphere and corona at the same time

via the Pressure tuning ablities of the scope. It allows only a small amount

of energy through, hence it's name as a "HA-Alph" scope. With this scope, no

moon disk would be seen, as it is not emitting HA.

Telescope 2 - 130mm Refractor with a Baader SolarLite filter allowing only

the light of the light from the solar disk through. Again, all other infomation

would be black.

As the moon made contact with the solar disk, both my telescopes and thier cameras

show the infraction of the moon. By using the data throughout the eclipse to

extrapolate the moons size, I then placed it's shadow above the eclispe, just

as it would have been, could my tech been capable of seeing it.

Cameras used- ZWO 174 & Canon 5D3

Mount used- Astro-Physics 1100GTO

Images used- four, one from the 5D3 total eclipse to see the corona and one from the infraction

of the moon, and two from the HA scope to again see the infraction, but also to

see the photosphere.

Image edited in AstroStakkert & Photoshop.

Images recorded in Spring City, TN

Barnard Astronomical Society of Chattanooga

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