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2017 Aug 21 Total Solar Eclipse - Sun's corona at totality, anilketkar

2017 Aug 21 Total Solar Eclipse - Sun's corona at totality

2017 Aug 21 Total Solar Eclipse - Sun's corona at totality, anilketkar

2017 Aug 21 Total Solar Eclipse - Sun's corona at totality

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This image of the crescent sun was taken in Nashville Tennessee, at ~1.28 pm in the afternoon. Image taken with a H-Alpha modded Nikon DSLR with a 200mm lens was NOT covered by any solar filter. Image details : ISO 200, f8 and 1/4 sec. One of series of images taken every 10 seconds after the totality started. This one was just after the total eclipse started at 1:27:28 pm. The image shows a nice corona out to about about 1 solar radius out. The red/purple color in the image is believed to be because I was using the H-Alpha modified camera. The image was tweaked by cropping, contrast enhancement and darkening to bring out Regulus in Leo constellation. One can see it as a slightly blurred dot at ~11 o'clock in top left. Used the i-Optron Skytracker to track the sun in the sky.

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2017 Aug 21 Total Solar Eclipse - Sun's corona at totality, anilketkar