Solar Eclipse from Mazatlán, México - 8 April 2024 - 18:07:26 to 18:11:44 UT (Roberto Botero)

Solar Eclipse from Mazatlán, México - 8 April 2024 - 18:07:26 to 18:11:44 UT

Revision title: Totality Composition

Despite the high clouds in Mazatlán, the eclipse was fantastic. No stacking and processing can do justice to the real life visual experience.
I had been practising with SharpCap for months to automate my imaging sequence and the software worked flawlessly. The weather didn't cooperate and there was no chance of capturing the solar corona through the high level clouds. Captured a number of bracketed exposures in SER videos starting 20 seconds before C2 all the way to 20 seconds after C3. There were scripted captures also for the partial phases - where the clouds are even more obvious. For a long discussion on the automation see here: CloudyNight's discussion.

Partial phases - 1.5ms through Baader solar film
C2 Ring - 0.8ms at 18:07.3
C2 Baily's beads - 0.2ms at 18.07.4
Prominences - between 0.5ms and 5.0ms during totality
C3 Baily's beads - 0.8ms at 18.11.7
C3 Ring - 0.8ms at 18.11.8

Calibrated and quality sorted in PIPP. Sorted again in AS!4. Only one frame used per SER as clouds interfered making any stacking impossible. For the animation, frames were initially aligned in PIPP, then PixInsight using FFT alignment and colorised using Solar Toolbox process. GIF created in PIPP. For the totality composition and processing Photoshop was used following the tutorial by Alan Dyer here.

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Title: Diamond Rings - C2 at upper left and C3 at lower right

Description: Diamond Rings

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C

Title: Baily's Beads composition - before C2 and after C3

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D

Title: Prominences' composition

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E

Title: Totality HDR composition

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Title: Totality Composition

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Title: Equipment for solar eclipse

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H

Title: Rooftop Torre Iberika - Mazatlan

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Title: Gear packing up

Description: Winding down

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J

Title: Sun WL before C1

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K

Title: Baily's Beads prediction from Xavier Jubiert's page

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