Thats it? VERY DISAPPOINTED! I have encountered more darkness during severe thunderstorms.

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Anonymous wrote:For those who didn't think it was very special, here are some photos from friends who traveled to totality zones. Both of these friends are avid amateur photographers.

This friend is an astrophysicist and he traveled to eastern OR to view the eclipse:




This friend is a retired project lead from Space Telescope up in Baltimore. He traveled to the Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming to view:




Amazing. I'm so jealous of my friends going to see this. We are already starting to plan to go and see the eclipse in 2024 (we're just investigating where we'd like to go for the viewing).

Were these taken with a filter?

I suspect they were. I would really like to see pictures of the eclipse in totality without the filters.

18:31 hear. My pics at totality were without a filter. before totally, I was using an ND 18 filter, which reduces the light a lot (and is sold as solar filter).

My pics (including the ones here were a bit overexposed). I probably should have had the camera bracket the pictures, but instead just used autoexposure. The other photos -- particularly the one with the prominences look like it was properly exposed such that the corona did not saturate everything else.

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7:15 We got some with a really basic digital cannon withput a filter and also tried withbour cell phones, both iphones and galaxy. We held a pair of eclipse glasses over the iphone and just shot with the galaxy. Both phone poctures looked the same, the sun with a tiny black pinprick in the center and dusky looking skies.

The very basic digital point and click cannon (my kid got it in early elementary school,so cheap and basic) was used with no filter.. The image definitely showed a full eclipse. If you look at the pictures poset above, the black center is about 1/3 the size of the ones with the filter. From the small center out to the corona, it is a orange/yellow sun color. Right along where the filter pictures show the blacl center meeting the corona, there is a thin circular line. The sky is just as black in our basic,unfiltered picture.

The filtered pictures posted are incredible and look exactly as it did in real time.

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Anonymous wrote:7:15 We got some with a really basic digital cannon withput a filter and also tried withbour cell phones, both iphones and galaxy. We held a pair of eclipse glasses over the iphone and just shot with the galaxy. Both phone poctures looked the same, the sun with a tiny black pinprick in the center and dusky looking skies.

The very basic digital point and click cannon (my kid got it in early elementary school,so cheap and basic) was used with no filter.. The image definitely showed a full eclipse. If you look at the pictures poset above, the black center is about 1/3 the size of the ones with the filter. From the small center out to the corona, it is a orange/yellow sun color. Right along where the filter pictures show the blacl center meeting the corona, there is a thin circular line. The sky is just as black in our basic,unfiltered picture.

The filtered pictures posted are incredible and look exactly as it did in real time.

This pic was not taken with any filter on:

I know. I had a ND 18 filter for the partial eclipse, but removed it for totality.

The problem you had was the limitations of a auto-exposure point and shoot in unusual lighting conditions. Since the overall light was not much compared to the brightness of the corona, the corona was over exposed, and that bled into surrounding pixels. My pics were still over exposed. In hindsight, I should have used manual exposure, training my camera on the moon for reference.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those who didn't think it was very special, here are some photos from friends who traveled to totality zones. Both of these friends are avid amateur photographers.

This friend is an astrophysicist and he traveled to eastern OR to view the eclipse:

This friend is a retired project lead from Space Telescope up in Baltimore. He traveled to the Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming to view:

Amazing. I'm so jealous of my friends going to see this. We are already starting to plan to go and see the eclipse in 2024 (we're just investigating where we'd like to go for the viewing).

Were these taken with a filter?

Extracting the photos to save space. Yes, both of these friends had sun filters for their cameras. No, I don't know which ones. I just know that they had them. I do know that the first friend (astrophysicist) has been to at least 2 other eclipses. He's a little bit of an eclipse-chaser and I recall him talking about other eclipses in the past.

The second one, I don't know him too well. I'm much better friends with his wife (who posted these on her FB page).

I'm the first PP with photos. I stand (or sit in this case) corrected. My friends had filters for the waxing and waning moon, but did not use them for full totality.

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Anonymous wrote:7:15 We got some with a really basic digital cannon withput a filter and also tried withbour cell phones, both iphones and galaxy. We held a pair of eclipse glasses over the iphone and just shot with the galaxy. Both phone poctures looked the same, the sun with a tiny black pinprick in the center and dusky looking skies.

The very basic digital point and click cannon (my kid got it in early elementary school,so cheap and basic) was used with no filter.. The image definitely showed a full eclipse. If you look at the pictures poset above, the black center is about 1/3 the size of the ones with the filter. From the small center out to the corona, it is a orange/yellow sun color. Right along where the filter pictures show the blacl center meeting the corona, there is a thin circular line. The sky is just as black in our basic,unfiltered picture.

The filtered pictures posted are incredible and look exactly as it did in real time.

This pic was not taken with any filter on:

I know. I had a ND 18 filter for the partial eclipse, but removed it for totality.

The problem you had was the limitations of a auto-exposure point and shoot in unusual lighting conditions. Since the overall light was not much compared to the brightness of the corona, the corona was over exposed, and that bled into surrounding pixels. My pics were still over exposed. In hindsight, I should have used manual exposure, training my camera on the moon for reference.

Probably with a much nicer camera though than an old early digital kids point and click camera. We forgot out nice camera. I wish we would have brought it.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:7:15 We got some with a really basic digital cannon withput a filter and also tried withbour cell phones, both iphones and galaxy. We held a pair of eclipse glasses over the iphone and just shot with the galaxy. Both phone poctures looked the same, the sun with a tiny black pinprick in the center and dusky looking skies.

The very basic digital point and click cannon (my kid got it in early elementary school,so cheap and basic) was used with no filter.. The image definitely showed a full eclipse. If you look at the pictures poset above, the black center is about 1/3 the size of the ones with the filter. From the small center out to the corona, it is a orange/yellow sun color. Right along where the filter pictures show the blacl center meeting the corona, there is a thin circular line. The sky is just as black in our basic,unfiltered picture.

The filtered pictures posted are incredible and look exactly as it did in real time.

This pic was not taken with any filter on:

I know. I had a ND 18 filter for the partial eclipse, but removed it for totality.

The problem you had was the limitations of a auto-exposure point and shoot in unusual lighting conditions. Since the overall light was not much compared to the brightness of the corona, the corona was over exposed, and that bled into surrounding pixels. My pics were still over exposed. In hindsight, I should have used manual exposure, training my camera on the moon for reference.

Probably with a much nicer camera though than an old early digital kids point and click camera. We forgot out nice camera. I wish we would have brought it.

I used a nikon d7000 with a nikkor 70-300 mm lens. Mounted to a tripod.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, that's it. The sun is very bright, even when it's only at 15%. If you want full darkness, you have to go to the path of the total eclipse.

Yes, we were in Tennessee and when there was even a sliver of the sun uncovered it was still fairly bright. It was only at totality that you got the full experience.