This is the total eclipse of the Sun of April 8, 2024, in a blend of two exposures to display all the fiery pink prominences that were visible during
This is the total eclipse of the Sun of April 8, 2024, in a blend of two exposures to display all the fiery pink prominences that were visible during totality around the lunar disk in one image, set against the bright inner corona of the Sun with the dark disk of the Moon in silhouette in front of the Sun. However, it was not possible to see all these prominences at once. The ones on the left were visible at the start of totality when the Moon's disk would have been covering the prominences on the right. As the Moon moved across the Sun from lower right to upper left here, it covered up the prominences at left and revealed the set of even larger prominences at right. Their pink colour comes primarily from hydrogen emission. Celestial north (not the same as solar or lunar north) is approximately at top in this framing. This blends two exposures: one taken near second contact when the last bit of the Sun's photosphere and pink chromosphere was disappearing at left, with an exposure taken near third contact with the chromosphere and bright photosphere beginning to appear at right. The frames are the last (at C2) and first (at C3) taken in a rapid-fire bursts shot at the two contacts. Both are 1/1000 second exposures at f/6 through the Astro-Physics 105mm Traveler refractor, with no reducer or flattener, and the Canon R5 at ISO 100. They were on the Astro-Physics AP400 mount tracking the Sun. Taken from Lac Brome in Quebec. I cropped the image from the original to enlarge the Sun and Moon on the frame. Sharpening with Topaz Photo AI.
Size: 5400px × 3602px
Photo credit: © Alan Dyer / VWPics / Alamy / Afripics
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