Solar eclipse 2017

• by mlpeck

  Any eclipse chasers out there? We had a perfect day in Clarksville, TN. Here are a couple of unedited shots I took. Corona at mid-eclipse:

  

  3rd contact. There's a huge almost detached prominence that I only captured in the last 3 frames I took and that I haven't seen mentioned elsewhere. I wonder if anyone else caught it:

  

  Posted August 23, 2017 3:19 PM

• by Ghost_Sheep_SWR

  I did see some images of a flare at ~ that position, but more arc-shaped definitely not a long streak like that.

  Nice images! (airplane in the first one below the Sun+moon?)

  Posted August 23, 2017 4:07 PM

• by mlpeck

  Thanks. Yeah you can just see the silhouette of a jet and its contrail. Must have been the NASA eclipse chaser, or maybe some lucky commercial jet.

  Posted August 23, 2017 4:20 PM

• by Ghost_Sheep_SWR

  Well, if it IS the NASA eclipse chaser that would make this image pretty epic 😃

  EDIT: here is 1:

  (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

  Posted August 23, 2017 4:34 PM

• by ElisabethB moderator

  Wow, mlpeck ! Those are some amazing pics !

  Posted August 23, 2017 6:44 PM

• by Budgieye moderator

  Identifiying the airplane.

  https://www.flightradar24.com/36.37,-87.49/9

  Click on playback

  Great images, by the way.

  My score is Success 1: Misses 2

  Posted August 23, 2017 7:17 PM

• by mlpeck

  Thanks.

  Someone pointed out to me that the long arcing "prominence" I was so fascinated with is almost certainly a lens flare rather than the solar kind. He's right of course.

  This was my second total solar eclipse. I think my film images from back in 1998 were better in some ways than what I got this time, but I haven't spent much time working on the ones from this expedition yet. Maybe by the next eclipse within driving distance from home (just 7 years!) I'll have an imaging strategy worked out.

  Posted August 24, 2017 3:59 AM