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The Great American Total Solar Eclipse of 2024, kdenny1

The Great American Total Solar Eclipse of 2024

The Great American Total Solar Eclipse of 2024, kdenny1

The Great American Total Solar Eclipse of 2024

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My HDR photograph of the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse. This was a stack of 25 images shot with a 72mm refractor telescope and a Nikon Z6, bracketing exposures from 1/8000 to 2 seconds. The camera was being controlled by an incredible piece of software known as Solar Eclipse Maestro. Six years of planning to make this shot a reality!

I drove about 14 hours from Florida to Quitman, Arkansas for this shot, after watching the models for over a week slowly converge on this area being the best to watch the eclipse. I watched the eclipse with some other astronomers. The morning started off partly cloudy, but about an hour before first contact the sky became completely cloudless, giving us some of the best viewing in the world for this eclipse.

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The Great American Total Solar Eclipse of 2024, kdenny1