One of the pictures I took yesterday so everybody can play with it. Not the best example you’ll find on the internet, but it was priceless to be there! It’s true that once you see a total solar eclipse you really want to see more 
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How did you shoot it? Tripod ? solar filter?
On a tripod, without filter. Actually, I forgot a (cheap) UV filter put and that created all kind of unwanted ghosting. Lesson learned for next time 
Another lesson: without a (good) solar filter you can’t properly focus before totality, so you lose precious time doing it during the total phase.
I tethered the camera with DSLR Controller to take an HDR timelapse automatically, that worked well. Too well actually as I miscalculated the eclipse length (due to the focusing time) and ended up taking a couple of very short exposures at the end which include Baily’s beads 
You should never re-focus on TLs 
Either you tweek your timer or get this one
I use the previous 2.5 and it is brilliant
Sorry, I wasn’t clear: I did not re-focus during the timelapse, only before starting it. But I only had a cheap thick dark glass to look to the Sun during the partial phase, so focusing with it was wrong once I removed it. It took me some 20-30 seconds to re-focus once the total phase started so my intervalometer, wich was supposed to stop well before the end of totality, finished some time after the Sun emerged again.
More is going on than that with the edges, particularly at the top. Not sure what it is yet.
That said, always great to see this type of photography.
I don’t know. At the beginning I thought the ‘double Sun edge’ was maybe due to zoom movement during the image, but it appears in the 3 pictures taken at 1/125s and it’s not so clear in all others. I now suspect of shutter vibration.
To be clear: this image does not show Baily’s beads, I still need to process those pictures.
Thanks!
Nice one!
From my city it was only 70% eclipsed and I forgot I had an ND… so my photos went to the trash, LOL.
Interesting choice of colors, I remember it being white. But I also remember the sky being blue, so there is clearly a big level of mental adaptation to the huge dynamic range of the situation.
There is also the philosophical question: the Sun’s corona is a light source, should it be ‘white’? When seen in context, its color should be assigned according to the color of the main light source on the scene (the Sun’s surface, which illuminates de sky)? After all, the protuberances look red only because the rest of the Sun is much hotter…
Thanks. The monochrome conversion has the nice by-product of dealing with the strong chromatic aberration of the lens 
Also, the highpass module is maybe what I was searching to enhance the contrast in the corona.
