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Eclipse 2024-Totality and Partial Phases Collage (R5 Traveler).jpg
This is a composite showing the complete sequence of the April 8, 2024 eclipse of the Sun, from first contact (at upper left) to last contact (at lower right), with totality at mid-eclipse in the middle.
Time runs from left to right here, with the positioning of the Suns similar to its actual motion in the sky during the mid-afternoon eclipse at my site at Lac Brome in Quebec, Canada. The Sun traveled from east to west (left to right) of course, but also down the western sky. However, the size of the Suns vs. the amount of motion shown here are not to the same scale. They are only "representative" to illustrate the sequence of the eclipse and progression of the partial phases.
At left are the partial phases before totality, from the start of the eclipse with the Moon taking the first bite out of the Sun at First Contact, C1, at top, to the thin crescent Sun just before Second Contact, C2 before totality. At right are the partial phases post-totality from the thin crescent just after Third Contact, C3, to the end of the eclipse at Fourth Contact, C4, at bottom.
The partial phase images were from a complete set of bracketed exposures taken at 1-minute intervals, but here with images selected that were taken 5 minutes apart, with the exception of the three on either side of totality when the crescent Sun changes very rapidly – those are at 2-minute intervals.
The sequence shows the progression of the Moon across the solar disk, moving from right to left (west to east) across the Sun due to the Moon's orbital motion around Earth. So the Moon first contacted the Sun at the 4 o'clock position on the solar disk, and departed it at the 10 o'clock position in these images which have celestial north roughly at top.
I shot all the images with the Astro-Physics Traveler 105mm refractor at 600mm focal length and f/6, with the Canon R5 at ISO 100. The partial phases are 1/800 or 1/400 second exposures through a Kendrick/Baader solar filter. I colorized them a pale yello
Time runs from left to right here, with the positioning of the Suns similar to its actual motion in the sky during the mid-afternoon eclipse at my site at Lac Brome in Quebec, Canada. The Sun traveled from east to west (left to right) of course, but also down the western sky. However, the size of the Suns vs. the amount of motion shown here are not to the same scale. They are only "representative" to illustrate the sequence of the eclipse and progression of the partial phases.
At left are the partial phases before totality, from the start of the eclipse with the Moon taking the first bite out of the Sun at First Contact, C1, at top, to the thin crescent Sun just before Second Contact, C2 before totality. At right are the partial phases post-totality from the thin crescent just after Third Contact, C3, to the end of the eclipse at Fourth Contact, C4, at bottom.
The partial phase images were from a complete set of bracketed exposures taken at 1-minute intervals, but here with images selected that were taken 5 minutes apart, with the exception of the three on either side of totality when the crescent Sun changes very rapidly – those are at 2-minute intervals.
The sequence shows the progression of the Moon across the solar disk, moving from right to left (west to east) across the Sun due to the Moon's orbital motion around Earth. So the Moon first contacted the Sun at the 4 o'clock position on the solar disk, and departed it at the 10 o'clock position in these images which have celestial north roughly at top.
I shot all the images with the Astro-Physics Traveler 105mm refractor at 600mm focal length and f/6, with the Canon R5 at ISO 100. The partial phases are 1/800 or 1/400 second exposures through a Kendrick/Baader solar filter. I colorized them a pale yello
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