[Closed] Solar Eclipse best bits

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Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky

Original: https://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/36548067642/

Is that a squadron of imperial tie-fighters?

I liked this bit...

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Is that a squadron of imperial tie-fighters?

Not quite. It's a multiple exposure showing the International Space Station traversing the eclipse.

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GrahamS - Member
Is that a squadron of imperial tie-fighters?
Not quite. It's a multiple exposure showing the International Space Station traversing the eclipse.

GrahamS - Member
Is that a squadron of imperial tie-fighters?
Not quite. It's a multiple exposure showing the International Space Station traversing the eclipse.

You sounds like a propaganda officer for the empire!

😀

ISS transit is cool.

I hope that's a proper biscuit, like a ginger snap.

Lots of shots filtered / unfiltered pointing directly at the eclipse which to me doesn't go close to showing what the viewers might've experienced. One bit I did see was on here in Nebraska with the NASA coverage and an actual unfiltered pan up to the eclipse at 2:35:50.

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Friend of a friend took this, combination of skill and luck AFAIK.

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82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg.

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That 82nd airborne thing's a big fat composite/fake fo-sho. Where do I start...?

Megalike for Cougar's friend-friend.

Having had a look, you're right. Hadn't seen the later corrections!

Source for my FoaF shot,

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Definitely requires a time/place/flightradar mash up to identify the plane.

I took this shot from Clemson, South Carolina, just as totality ended.

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I've stitched together a series of shots into a very short timelapse video:

I've been planning this in my head for 18 years since I went to France in 99 and it was clouded out. This was my first experience of a total eclipse without cloud cover and it was absolutely amazing, I now understand why eclipse chasers do what they do.

Yeah, I have to admit I went on a long planned cornwall trip for '99 and was clouded out too. It's still on my to-do list!

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more here:

https://fstoppers.com/originals/top-10-solar-eclipse-photos-found-around-web-193043

there are a few images of the same scene from slightly different angles.

Actually from last year but they all look the same!

Destin captures it brilliantly including the ISS transit:

Friend of a friend took this, combination of skill and luck AFAIK.

Im going to call BS on that one.

[quote=trailwagger ]Friend of a friend took this, combination of skill and luck AFAIK.
Im going to call BS on that one.

Taken by Kirsten Jorgensen

Shot of a lifetime. This print is available for purchase in multiple formats to those who asked at https://fineartamerica.com/products/solar-eclipse-with-plane-kirsten-jorgensen-art-print.html #nikon #nikonusa #nikonphotography #eclipse #eclipse2017 #photography #photograph #picoftheday #photooftheday #d5200 #dslr #instagood

First pic in the link I posted

https://fstoppers.com/originals/top-10-solar-eclipse-photos-found-around-web-193043 <

trailwagger » Friend of a friend took this, combination of skill and luck AFAIK.
Im going to call BS on that one.
Taken by Kirsten Jorgensen

Shot of a lifetime. This print is available for purchase in multiple formats to those who asked at https://fineartamerica.com/products/solar-eclipse-with-plane-kirsten-jorgensen-art-print.html #nikon #nikonusa #nikonphotography #eclipse #eclipse2017 #photography #photograph #picoftheday #photooftheday #d5200 #dslr #instagood
First pic in the link I posted

https://fstoppers.com/originals/top-10-solar-eclipse-photos-found-around-web-193043

Doesnt mean its real. Can you explain why the underside of the plane appears to be lit? Surely it would be a silhoutte?

It also reminds me alot of this

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-35457135

Can you explain why the underside of the plane appears to be lit?

Wouldn't it be lit a bit by the light reflected off the Earth?

Wouldn't it be lit a bit by the light reflected off the Earth?

During a total eclipse? I doubt there would be enough light bouncing back up to light the undercarriage of a plane that must of been flying pretty. In a shot that has such contrast between the remaining sun and the total blackness surrounding it, i would expect the plane be a shadow. Certainly the nose of it, which is outside of the sun and entering the blackest part.

It's light reflecting off the conveyor belt.

During a total eclipse?

The shadow of the eclipse is only 114km across. That leaves a lot of lit up Earth.

I doubt there would be enough light bouncing back up to light the undercarriage of a plane

But isn't that how we [i]usually[/i] see the underside of a plane?

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/6v6y1k/hello_reddit_i_am_the_accidental_photographer_of/

But isn't that how we usually see the underside of a plane?

Yes but not how a camera would see it when exposing for the extreme light part of an otherwise 95% black frame.

Hmm.. maybe.. I don't think anyone looking for the perfect eclipse shot was shooting on auto-exposure.. but you [i]could[/i] be right about the dynamic range required.