Baily's Beads (Michael Southam)

Baily's Beads

Single frame captured during totality of the April 8, 2024 Total Solar Eclipse from Jackman Maine.

For my first attempt at imaging a total solar eclipse, I decided to use APT to manage the imaging session. This is somewhat unconventional as there are several imaging programs that specialize in this event specifically. My reason for trusting APT is 2 fold. Firstly I am very familiar with APT and have trusted it for sevaral years now. Secondy and most importantly though, the specialized eclipse imaging software will take the correct exposure shot at the correct time as their timing is linked to the eclipse at the exact GPS location where you set up. This though comes with a big hidden disadvantage. That being that if something goes wrong, as it inevitably does for me and I have to pause the capture session, the software may not auto correct it's timing to sync back up with the eclipse. Thus you would get the the wrong exposure lengths for the rest of the eclipse. Enter APT. An APT imaging script could be told to start capture at a certain time but I prefer in this instance to start and stop the script manually. I realized that I could write several scripts for different parts of the partial and total eclipse. ie 50% to 75% cover. These scripts could all be started and stopped manually. It was a very good job I went this route as, no sooner had the eclipse began, I leant against my scope and ruined the alignment. I had to stop the script so that I could see the new alignment but was able to start it right back up again 2 minutes later after I had re-aligned. Somehow though my dec axis was not correct so I had to redo this process several more times though the eclipse as the sun kept moving off center. Thank you APT.

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