momijizukamori: (tired space gay)
I said I'd share eclipse photos and then got bogged down in a cycle of 'I should do a write-up to go with this' -> 'I do not have the energy to do a write-up' so uhhhh posting these sans write-up, heh. Taken using a Canon 70-300 at max zoom, on my Rebel T7i. I wrote some automation to control it via a RPi3 and my phone, so I got shots once a minute during the partial phases, and then six different exposures in a row every five seconds during totality (and in retrospect I should've dropped the delay entirely but eh). Some Lightroom tweaks to bring out contrast etc, though the sequence image is a composite.

under the cut because they're BIG )

Eclipse 2024 pt 1

Tuesday, 9 April 2024 21:10
momijizukamori: (space dad)
So I'd attribute yesterday's success to a combo of good luck (surprise good weather), pre-planning (which means I had ALL THE THINGS in my car and was out of the house before 9am), local knowledge, and flexibility.

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I'll do another post about my photo setup and share some of the photos in a day or two, when I've had time to finish editing them!
momijizukamori: (shitty goth dad)
More later because I left my house shortly before 9am and got home shortly before 9pm, so I am beat, but we had a miraculously clear day after a week straight of rain here in New England, and my dad and I managed to get into the area of totality in northern Vermont! Everyone who said that totality was a whole different level to partial: you were absolutely right. I can also see why people thousands of years ago thought that they were a sign from the gods or the end of the world or something - that was definitely one of the eeriest 75 seconds of my life.

Solar Eclipse

Wednesday, 6 March 2024 20:15
momijizukamori: Young Vergil from the Devil May Cry doujinshi Bless. The text reads 'Turn you into stars' (kid!Vergil | turn you into stars)
So I was not really paying attention to solar eclipse stuff other than a vague sense that it was happening sometime this year somewhere in the US, and then I looked up the path and realized I'm less than a three hour drive from the path of totality (it's like, 3-4 hours to get really close to the center line), and I have now become the obnoxious person checking driving times and trying to get my local friends to do a road trip with me, etc etc, because my two settings are 'indifference' and '200% in'.

(it is also a week after Anime Boston and like three days after a concert that was supposed to be last fall and got postponed, so that'll be exciting, lol)

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