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This is a wide-field view of the April 8, 2024 total eclipse of the Sun, taking in the bright planets Jupiter (at top) and Venus (below) that were easily visible to the unaided eye during totality. Here the Sun appears only as its outer atmosphere, the corona, in shades of yellow and blue, surrounding the dark disk of the Moon.

A few other stars, notably in Aries above and in Pisces at left, are visible, but just barely as tiny specks. Mercury was in the field above the Sun but it does not show up here. Mars and Saturn were in sky as well, but below the frame here (they would likely not have shown up being low and in cloud).

The line through Jupiter, the Sun (and Moon!) and Venus defines the ecliptic.

This is an HDR blend of 5 exposures from 1/8 sec to 2 seconds at f/2.8 with the Canon RF28-70mm lens at 28mm and Canon R at ISO 100. The sequence was an attempt to record more stars and the outermost extent of coronal streamers, and possibly Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks which was near Jupiter. But high cloud thwarted attempts at "deep" exposures this day – and attempts to record more solar system objects near the Sun and Moon, as all the planets were in the eclipse sky this day, plus a comet!

I shot this from the Tiffany Park site on the east side of Lac Brome in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, Canada.
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Solar Eclipses, 2024 Total Solar Eclipse
This is a wide-field view of the April 8, 2024 total eclipse of the Sun, taking in the bright planets Jupiter (at top) and Venus (below) that were easily visible to the unaided eye during totality. Here the Sun appears only as its outer atmosphere, the corona, in shades of yellow and blue, surrounding the dark disk of the Moon. <br /> <br /> A few other stars, notably in Aries above and in Pisces at left, are visible, but just barely as tiny specks. Mercury was in the field above the Sun but it does not show up here. Mars and Saturn were in sky as well, but below the frame here (they would likely not have shown up being low and in cloud). <br /> <br /> The line through Jupiter, the Sun (and Moon!) and Venus defines the ecliptic. <br /> <br /> This is an HDR blend of 5 exposures from 1/8 sec to 2 seconds at f/2.8 with the Canon RF28-70mm lens at 28mm and Canon R at ISO 100. The sequence was an attempt to record more stars and the outermost extent of coronal streamers, and possibly Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks which was near Jupiter. But high cloud thwarted attempts at "deep" exposures this day – and attempts to record more solar system objects near the Sun and Moon, as all the planets were in the eclipse sky this day, plus a comet! <br /> <br /> I shot this from the Tiffany Park site on the east side of Lac Brome in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, Canada.