My main result that I was aiming to produce from my trip to see the eclipse on April 8 2024.

The trip was quite wild. I was originally planning to go to Texas and see the eclipse with a couple of my friends from there. I even reserved day pass to one of my favorite state parks - Lost Maples - that happened to be right on the centerline of the eclipse. Of course, that needed some planning and preparation, lol, because the passes were gone in less than 2-3 minutes after the reservations opened one month before the eclipse. I was also going to fly to Nevada to visit Death Valley NP and blah-blah-blah.

Anyway, with forecasts being what they were, I was first planning to drive ~10 hours to northeast Arkansas, but then decided to just toss all of my plans, cancel all the reservations, and see the eclipse from Maine. I was already registered for my Houston flight when I bought Boston flight, reserved the car and booked the BNBs ~3-4 hours from the centerline. Obviously, anything closer had been reserved by then, but I was happy to be able to get this close this late.

Then there were few almost sleepless nights to prepare all the equipment, find a good spot to observe (which I didn't end up going to), create Eclipse Orchestrator scripts, test stuff. All worth it! I ended up observing from Mt. Katahdin Scenic Outlook viewpoint with an amazing view.

The goal was to get close up views of the eclipse, so rented out a 600mm f4 lens and added 2x extender to it for a total of 1200mm of FL. Automated everything with Eclipse Orchestrator and after fixing a whole lot of problems with the capture last moment, I was able to let the equipment to its thing while I was enjoying and taking in the view. What sight, truly profound, as everyone who saw totality can testify probably.

The sky was absolutely clear, but there were pretty strong wind gusts from time to time and the seeing was not great as well. Still, I encourage you to take a look at the image above at 100%, I think the details I was able to capture are pretty good. I really love the thin filaments running along the magnetic lines running between two large prominences:



Hope you enjoy!