This is an animation of every 1/4000" frame I took during/around totality. For most of totality I was looping HDR sequences and had one of these frames roughly every 15 seconds, but around each contact I bursted these short frames to get the beads. The animation lasts for the entirety that my solar filter was off, which was about 13 seconds before/after each contact. I think it’s cool seeing the motion of the moon relative to the sun like this. Since imgur compression is kinda shit, here’s a (slightly) less compressed version on youtube.

Captured on April 8th, 2024 from Sikeston, MO.

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Equipment:

• TPO 6" F/4 Imaging Newtonian

• Orion Sirius EQ-G

• Canon T3i (Ha modded)

• Skywatcher Quattro Coma Corrector

• Moonlite Autofocuser

Acquisition:

• Single 1/4000" exposure at ISO 100

Capture Software:

• Eclipse Orchestrator Free for automating the capture sequence

• NINA for controlling the mount and autofocuser

Processing:

• Manually aligned the frames in photoshop based on the prominences

• Exported frames as tiffs

• PIPP to make final gif at 16fps

Beautiful!