total solar eclipse
Taken by Mark Rosengarten on April 8, 2024 @
Plattsburgh, NY
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Camera Used: FUJIFILM X-T5
Exposure Time: 1/500
Aperture: f/8.0
ISO: 400
Date Taken: 2024:04:09 09:39:01
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I drove my dad up to Plattsburgh, NY. My friend Mike was already there, scouting out locations. His son clued him in to a tiny parking lot in a wildlife refuge with a clear, unobstructed view of all horizons. We nabbed it, and we were joined by my friends Darryl and Janet,their daughter and her boyfriend as well as Mike's son and his son's college friends. Others joined us and we had our own little community of eclipse watchers. We waited throughout the day. I had my refractor with a H-alpha filter and scoped out the prominences we might see during the eclipse. I had two cameras, one with a zoom lens and the other wide-angle. The one with the zoom was on a tracking mount. The moment of totality approached swiftly and the sky grew dark very suddenly, the sun like a dazzling jewel on black velvet and then totality! Cirrus clouds had been creeping in throughout the day and the corona was diffused by them, giving a ground-glass effect to the eclipse that I was unable to satisfactorily capture with my camera. I messed up the settings on my wide-angle camera but I got two reasonable shots with the zoom. There was one prominence that was very prominent, jutting out like a snaggletooth at about 5:00 on the disk. The moment of the second diamond ring was one of the most beautiful things I have ever witnessed. The sky was orange and dramatic at the horizon. It was spectacular. Within five minutes of the end of totality I had my gear and my dad packed up in the car and we were on our way. We had a 250-mile drive back to the Hudson Valley on the New York State Thruway and it took us 7 hours to accomplish through the worst traffic I've ever endured. The day was worth the pain at the end, though. What a gorgeous experience and I was so thrilled to share it with my dad, who had never seen totality before and is a fellow science enthusiast.
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